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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Create a simple web portal/GUI to execute scripts? Post 302824017 by bakunin on Thursday 20th of June 2013 06:08:42 AM
Old 06-20-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by poops
How can i get the buttons on the page to ssh to the server and kick off the scripts?
This is the basic functionality of "CGI". CGI - Common Gateway Interface is a way to interface logic - scripts - with the webservers operation, so that whenever some event happens (like when a button is clicked, etc.) a certain script starts to run.

Quote:
Originally Posted by poops
Instead of having to run these update stmnts from the command line or in workbench etc, the main goal is to have a page I can leave open in the browser at all times and just plug a variable into the text field and select the correct button for what i want it to update.
This is quite possible, but depending on how "public" this should be you will have to take various amounts of security precautions. If you simply add the text of your "variable" to a fixed statement and execute this it is possible to add a text which in fact comprises a complete SQL-statement and hence changes the intent of your original statement to something entirely different. This is called "SQL injection" and is one of the biggest issues in Web Development when dealing with user-provided values.

Now, if the three-button interface is just for your personal use you can of course skip any security means, like pre-parsing the user-provided part, etc.. But as the audience using this grows so does the risk of somebody not being as benevolent as you and the necessity of taking precautions increases.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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MsgBox(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						 MsgBox(3)

NAME

       Tk::MsgBox - create and manipulate a message dialog

SYNOPSIS

	   use Tk::MsgBox
	   ...
	   $d = $top->MsgBox(-title => "Title", -type => "okcancel");
	   ...
	   $button = $d->Show;

DESCRIPTION

       MsgBox is a simple dialog with predefined buttons.

OPTIONS

       The options recognized by MsgBox are as follows:

       -icon
	   Specify the icon of the MsgBox. Valid values are error, info, question, or warning.

       -type
	   Specify the type of the MsgBox. Valid values are abortretryignore, ok, okcancel, retrycancel, yesno, or yesnocancel. The type
	   determines the buttons to be shown.

       -default
	   Specify the default button. This must be one of abort, retry, ignore, ok, cancel, yes, or no, depending on the type of the MsgBox
	   previously specified.

       -detail
	   Specify text for the detail region of the MsgBox.

       -message
	   Specify the message text of the MsgBox.

       -title
	   Specify the title of the MsgBox.

METHODS

       MsgBox supports only one method as of now:

       Show()
	   Displays the MsgBox until the user invokes one of the buttons. Returns the name of the button invoked.

AUTHOR

       Translated from Tcl/Tk by Slaven Rezic srezic@cpan.org

       This code is distributed under the same terms as Perl.

SEE ALSO

       Tk::messageBox, Tk::DialogBox, Tk::Dialog.

perl v5.16.3							    2014-06-10								 MsgBox(3)
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