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Top Forums Programming Creating a web based id request form Post 302514078 by Corona688 on Thursday 14th of April 2011 06:35:49 PM

04-14-2011

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Well, the form itself is just a webpage. If it's static, you could make it totally separate -- just pure HTML. It would call a CGI script, which you could write in a language you know. (What languages DO you know?)

Here's a simple introduction to forms, and a little example:

Code:

<html>
<form method='post' action="/cgi-bin/my-handler.sh">
        <input type='text' name='value'>
        <input type='submit'>
</form></html>

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# my-handler.sh
# doesn't have to be a shell script, you can write in whatever languages
# are available on your server...

# Every CGI script needs to start its output at least with a header saying
# what type of data it is, followed by a blank line.
echo "Content-type: text/plain"
echo
echo "You POSTed the following data:"

# Data will come into stdin as strings like var=value&var2=value2
# tr will read everything from stdin and print it to stdout, converting &
# to \n as it goes, printing them to the client's browser.
tr '&' '\n'

echo
# The server sets a bunch of different variables about itself, the client,
# the page being requested, etc.  'env' prints absolutely everything.
echo "The server provided the following variables:"
env

exit 0

The script goes in your webserver's cgi-bin directory (or your own private cgi-bin directory if you have one). If you can get that page working with that CGI script you can work up from there...

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bb-snapshot.cgi

BB-SNAPSHOT.CGI(1)					      General Commands Manual						BB-SNAPSHOT.CGI(1)

NAME

       bb-snapshot.cgi - CGI program to rebuild the Xymon webpages for a specific point in time.

SYNOPSIS

       bb-snapshot.cgi

DESCRIPTION

       bb-snapshot.cgi	is  invoked as a CGI script via the bb-snapshot.sh CGI wrapper.  It rebuilds the Xymon web pages to the look they had at a
       particular point in time, based upon the historical information logged about events.

       bb-snapshot.cgi is passed a QUERY_STRING environment variable with the following parameters:

	  mon (Start month of the snapshot)
	  day (Start day-of-month of the snapshot)
	  yr  (Start year of the snapshot)
	  hour (Start hour of the snapshot)
	  min  (Start minute of the snapshot)
	  sec  (Start second of the snapshot)

       The "month" parameters must be specified as the three-letter english month name abbreviation: Jan, Feb, Mar ...

       "day" must be in the range 1..31; "yr" must be specified including century (e.g. "2003"). "hour" must be specified using a 24-hour clock.

       All of the processing involved in generating the report is done by invoking bbgen(1) with the proper "--snapshot" option.

OPTIONS

       --env=FILENAME
	      Load environment from FILENAME before executing the CGI.

       bbgen-options
	      All options except "--env" are passed on to the bbgen(1) program building the snapshot files.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       BBGENSNAPOPTS
	      bbgen options passed by default to the bb-snapshot.cgi script.  This happens in the bb-snapshot.sh CGI wrapper script.

       BBHOME Home directory of the Xymon server files

       BBSNAP Directory where generated snapshots are stored. This directory must be writable by the userid executing the  CGI	script,  typically
	      "www", "apache" or "nobody". Default: $BBHOME/www/snap/

       BBSNAPURL
	      The URL prefix to use when accessing the reports via a browser.  Default: $BBWEB/snap

SEE ALSO

       bbgen(1), bb-hosts(5), hobbitserver.cfg(5)

Xymon							    Version 4.2.3:  4 Feb 2009						BB-SNAPSHOT.CGI(1)