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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Writing CGI scripting using perl Post 302115207 by alma on Monday 23rd of April 2007 05:46:52 AM
Old 04-23-2007
CGI Script - Not getting form value
My code is a.html
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<body>
<form name=name form method=post action=http://localhost/cgi-bin/b.cgi>
enter your name:<input name=name type=text><br>
<input type=submit>
</form>
</body>
</html>

b.cgi
#!/perl/bin/perl5.6.1.exe
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
my $name=param("name");
print "Content-Type:text/html\n\n";
print $name;

But i am not getting the value in it.

Thanks Alma
 

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cgi_cs_init

cgi_cs_init(3)							     cgi/cgi.h							    cgi_cs_init(3)

NAME

       cgi_cs_init  - initialize CS parser with the CGI defaults

SYNOPSIS

       #include <cgi/cgi.h>

       NEOERR *cgi_cs_init(CGI *cgi, CSPARSE **cs);

ARGUMENTS

       cgi - a pointer a CGI struct allocated with cgi_init
       cs - a pointer to a CS struct pointer

DESCRIPTION

       cgi_cs_init initializes a CS parser with the CGI HDF context, and registers the standard CGI filters

RETURN VALUE

       cs - the allocated/initialized CS struct

SEE ALSO

       cgi_debug_init(3),  cgi_parse(3),  cgi_destroy(3),  cgi_js_escape(3),  cgi_html_escape_strfunc(3), cgi_register_strfuncs(3), cgi_output(3),
       parse_rfc2388(3), cgi_url_validate(3), open_upload(3), cgi_cs_init(3), cgi_url_escape_more(3), cgi_html_strip_strfunc(3), cgi_neo_error(3),
       cgi_redirect(3),  cgi_filehandle(3),  cgi_register_parse_cb(3),	cgi_url_escape(3),  cgi_init(3), cgi_redirect_uri(3), cgi_cookie_clear(3),
       cgi_url_unescape(3), cgi_vredirect(3), cgi_display(3),  cgi_html_ws_strip(3),  cgi_error(3),  cgi_cookie_set(3),  cgi_text_html_strfunc(3),
       cgi_cookie_authority

ClearSilver							   12 July 2007 						    cgi_cs_init(3)
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