# The most recent version and complete docs are available at:
# http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/
-$CGI::revision = '$Id: CGI.pm,v 1.55 2001/09/26 02:15:52 lstein Exp $';
-$CGI::VERSION='2.78';
+$CGI::revision = '$Id: CGI.pm,v 1.56 2001/12/09 21:36:23 lstein Exp $';
+$CGI::VERSION='2.79';
# HARD-CODED LOCATION FOR FILE UPLOAD TEMPORARY FILES.
# UNCOMMENT THIS ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
# $CGITempFile::TMPDIRECTORY = '/usr/tmp';
use CGI::Util qw(rearrange make_attributes unescape escape expires);
-use constant XHTML_DTD => ['-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN',
- 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd'];
+#use constant XHTML_DTD => ['-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN',
+# 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd'];
+
+use constant XHTML_DTD => ['-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN',
+ 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'];
# >>>>> Here are some globals that you might want to adjust <<<<<<
sub initialize_globals {
input Select option comment charset escapeHTML/],
':html3'=>[qw/div table caption th td TR Tr sup Sub strike applet Param
embed basefont style span layer ilayer font frameset frame script small big/],
+ ':html4'=>[qw/abbr acronym bdo col colgroup del fieldset iframe
+ ins label legend noframes noscript object optgroup Q
+ thead tbody tfoot/],
':netscape'=>[qw/blink fontsize center/],
':form'=>[qw/textfield textarea filefield password_field hidden checkbox checkbox_group
submit reset defaults radio_group popup_menu button autoEscape
':ssl' => [qw/https/],
':imagemap' => [qw/Area Map/],
':cgi-lib' => [qw/ReadParse PrintHeader HtmlTop HtmlBot SplitParam Vars/],
- ':html' => [qw/:html2 :html3 :netscape/],
- ':standard' => [qw/:html2 :html3 :form :cgi/],
+ ':html' => [qw/:html2 :html3 :html4 :netscape/],
+ ':standard' => [qw/:html2 :html3 :html4 :form :cgi/],
':push' => [qw/multipart_init multipart_start multipart_end multipart_final/],
- ':all' => [qw/:html2 :html3 :netscape :form :cgi :internal/]
+ ':all' => [qw/:html2 :html3 :netscape :form :cgi :internal :html4/]
);
# to import symbols into caller
return "$pack\:\:$func_name";
}
+sub _selected {
+ my $self = shift;
+ my $value = shift;
+ return '' unless $value;
+ return $XHTML ? qq( selected="1") : qq( selected);
+}
+
+sub _checked {
+ my $self = shift;
+ my $value = shift;
+ return '' unless $value;
+ return $XHTML ? qq( checked="1") : qq( checked);
+}
+
sub _reset_globals { initialize_globals(); }
sub _setup_symbols {
sub Dump {
my($self) = self_or_default(@_);
my($param,$value,@result);
- return '<UL></UL>' unless $self->param;
- push(@result,"<UL>");
+ return '<ul></ul>' unless $self->param;
+ push(@result,"<ul>");
foreach $param ($self->param) {
my($name)=$self->escapeHTML($param);
- push(@result,"<LI><STRONG>$param</STRONG>");
- push(@result,"<UL>");
+ push(@result,"<li><strong>$param</strong>");
+ push(@result,"<ul>");
foreach $value ($self->param($param)) {
$value = $self->escapeHTML($value);
- $value =~ s/\n/<BR>\n/g;
- push(@result,"<LI>$value");
+ $value =~ s/\n/<br>\n/g;
+ push(@result,"<li>$value");
}
- push(@result,"</UL>");
+ push(@result,"</ul>");
}
- push(@result,"</UL>");
+ push(@result,"</ul>");
return join("\n",@result);
}
END_OF_FUNC
# $script -> (option) Javascript code (-script)
# $no_script -> (option) Javascript <noscript> tag (-noscript)
# $meta -> (optional) Meta information tags
-# $head -> (optional) any other elements you'd like to incorporate into the <HEAD> tag
+# $head -> (optional) any other elements you'd like to incorporate into the <head> tag
# (a scalar or array ref)
# $style -> (optional) reference to an external style sheet
# @other -> (optional) any other named parameters you'd like to incorporate into
-# the <BODY> tag.
+# the <body> tag.
####
'start_html' => <<'END_OF_FUNC',
sub start_html {
push @result,qq(<?xml version="1.0" encoding="$encoding"?>) if $xml_dtd;
if (ref($dtd) && ref($dtd) eq 'ARRAY') {
- push(@result,qq(<!DOCTYPE html\n\tPUBLIC "$dtd->[0]"\n\t"$dtd->[1]">));
+ push(@result,qq(<!DOCTYPE html\n\tPUBLIC "$dtd->[0]"\n\tSYSTEM "$dtd->[1]">));
} else {
push(@result,qq(<!DOCTYPE html\n\tPUBLIC "$dtd">));
}
#### Method: end_html
# End an HTML document.
-# Trivial method for completeness. Just returns "</BODY>"
+# Trivial method for completeness. Just returns "</body>"
####
'end_html' => <<'END_OF_FUNC',
sub end_html {
# $rows -> Optional number of rows in text area
# $columns -> Optional number of columns in text area
# Returns:
-# A string containing a <TEXTAREA></TEXTAREA> tag
+# A string containing a <textarea></textarea> tag
#
'textarea' => <<'END_OF_FUNC',
sub textarea {
$name = defined($name) ? $self->escapeHTML($name) : '';
$current = defined($current) ? $self->escapeHTML($current) : '';
- my($r) = $rows ? " rows=$rows" : '';
- my($c) = $cols ? " cols=$cols" : '';
+ my($r) = $rows ? qq/ rows="$rows"/ : '';
+ my($c) = $cols ? qq/ cols="$cols"/ : '';
my($other) = @other ? " @other" : '';
return qq{<textarea name="$name"$r$c$other>$current</textarea>};
}
if (!$override && ($self->{'.fieldnames'}->{$name} ||
defined $self->param($name))) {
- $checked = grep($_ eq $value,$self->param($name)) ? ' checked="1"' : '';
+ $checked = grep($_ eq $value,$self->param($name)) ? $self->_checked(1) : '';
} else {
- $checked = $checked ? qq/ checked="1"/ : '';
+ $checked = $self->_checked($checked);
}
my($the_label) = defined $label ? $label : $name;
$name = $self->escapeHTML($name);
my($other) = @other ? " @other" : '';
foreach (@values) {
- $checked = $checked{$_} ? qq/ checked="1"/ : '';
+ $checked = $self->_checked($checked{$_});
$label = '';
unless (defined($nolabels) && $nolabels) {
$label = $_;
$result = qq/<select name="$name"$other>\n/;
foreach (@values) {
- my($selectit) = defined($selected) ? ($selected eq $_ ? qq/selected="1"/ : '' ) : '';
+ my($selectit) = defined($selected) ? $self->_selected($selected eq $_) : '';
my($label) = $_;
$label = $labels->{$_} if defined($labels) && defined($labels->{$_});
my($value) = $self->escapeHTML($_);
$name=$self->escapeHTML($name);
$result = qq/<select name="$name"$has_size$is_multiple$other>\n/;
foreach (@values) {
- my($selectit) = $selected{$_} ? qq/selected="1"/ : '';
+ my($selectit) = $self->_selected($selected{$_});
my($label) = $_;
$label = $labels->{$_} if defined($labels) && defined($labels->{$_});
$label=$self->escapeHTML($label);
Code Generated HTML
---- --------------
- h1() <H1>
- h1('some','contents'); <H1>some contents</H1>
- h1({-align=>left}); <H1 ALIGN="LEFT">
- h1({-align=>left},'contents'); <H1 ALIGN="LEFT">contents</H1>
+ h1() <h1>
+ h1('some','contents'); <h1>some contents</h1>
+ h1({-align=>left}); <h1 ALIGN="LEFT">
+ h1({-align=>left},'contents'); <h1 ALIGN="LEFT">contents</h1>
HTML tags are described in more detail later.
=item B<:html3>
-Import all methods that generate HTML 3.0 proposed elements (such as
+Import all methods that generate HTML 3.0 elements (such as
<table>, <super> and <sub>).
+=item B<:html4>
+
+Import all methods that generate HTML 4 elements (such as
+<abbrev>, <acronym> and <thead>).
+
=item B<:netscape>
Import all methods that generate Netscape-specific HTML extensions.
=item B<:standard>
-Import "standard" features, 'html2', 'html3', 'form' and 'cgi'.
+Import "standard" features, 'html2', 'html3', 'html4', 'form' and 'cgi'.
=item B<:all>
will treat it as a new HTML tag and generate the appropriate
subroutine. You can then use it like any other HTML tag. This is to
provide for the rapidly-evolving HTML "standard." For example, say
-Microsoft comes out with a new tag called <GRADIENT> (which causes the
+Microsoft comes out with a new tag called <gradient> (which causes the
user's desktop to be flooded with a rotating gradient fill until his
machine reboots). You don't need to wait for a new version of CGI.pm
to start using it immediately:
produces
- <H1>Level 1 Header</H1>
+ <h1>Level 1 Header</h1>
There will be some times when you want to produce the start and end
tags yourself. In this case, you can use the form start_I<tag_name>
=over 4
-=item 1. start_table() (generates a <TABLE> tag)
+=item 1. start_table() (generates a <table> tag)
-=item 2. end_table() (generates a </TABLE> tag)
+=item 2. end_table() (generates a </table> tag)
-=item 3. start_ul() (generates a <UL> tag)
+=item 3. start_ul() (generates a <ul> tag)
-=item 4. end_ul() (generates a </UL> tag)
+=item 4. end_ul() (generates a </ul> tag)
=back
page, along with a lot of optional information that controls the
page's appearance and behavior.
-This method returns a canned HTML header and the opening <BODY> tag.
+This method returns a canned HTML header and the opening <body> tag.
All parameters are optional. In the named parameter form, recognized
parameters are -title, -author, -base, -xbase, -dtd, -lang and -target
(see below for the explanation). Any additional parameters you
provide, such as the Netscape unofficial BGCOLOR attribute, are added
-to the <BODY> tag. Additional parameters must be proceeded by a
+to the <body> tag. Additional parameters must be proceeded by a
hyphen.
-The argument B<-xbase> allows you to provide an HREF for the <BASE> tag
+The argument B<-xbase> allows you to provide an HREF for the <base> tag
different from the current location, as in
-xbase=>"http://home.mcom.com/"
You add arbitrary meta information to the header with the B<-meta>
argument. This argument expects a reference to an associative array
containing name/value pairs of meta information. These will be turned
-into a series of header <META> tags that look something like this:
+into a series of header <meta> tags that look something like this:
- <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="pharaoh secret mummy">
- <META NAME="description" CONTENT="copyright 1996 King Tut">
+ <meta name="keywords" content="pharaoh secret mummy">
+ <meta name="description" content="copyright 1996 King Tut">
-To create an HTTP-EQUIV type of <META> tag, use B<-head>, described
+To create an HTTP-EQUIV type of <meta> tag, use B<-head>, described
below.
The B<-style> argument is used to incorporate cascading stylesheets
information.
The B<-lang> argument is used to incorporate a language attribute into
-the <HTML> tag. The default if not specified is "en-US" for US
+the <html> tag. The default if not specified is "en-US" for US
English. For example:
print $q->start_html(-lang=>'fr-CA');
The B<-encoding> argument can be used to specify the character set for
XHTML. It defaults to UTF-8 if not specified.
-You can place other arbitrary HTML elements to the <HEAD> section with the
-B<-head> tag. For example, to place the rarely-used <LINK> element in the
+You can place other arbitrary HTML elements to the <head> section with the
+B<-head> tag. For example, to place the rarely-used <link> element in the
head section, use this:
print start_html(-head=>Link({-rel=>'next',
-href=>'http://www.capricorn.com/s2.html'}));
-To incorporate multiple HTML elements into the <HEAD> section, just pass an
+To incorporate multiple HTML elements into the <head> section, just pass an
array reference:
print start_html(-head=>[
]
);
-And here's how to create an HTTP-EQUIV <META> tag:
+And here's how to create an HTTP-EQUIV <meta> tag:
print start_html(-head=>meta({-http_equiv => 'Content-Type',
-content => 'text/html'}))
B<-onMouseOver>, B<-onMouseOut> and B<-onUnload> parameters are used
to add Netscape JavaScript calls to your pages. B<-script> should
point to a block of text containing JavaScript function definitions.
-This block will be placed within a <SCRIPT> block inside the HTML (not
+This block will be placed within a <script> block inside the HTML (not
HTTP) header. The block is placed in the header in order to give your
page a fighting chance of having all its JavaScript functions in place
even if the user presses the stop button before the page has loaded
browsers that do not have JavaScript (or browsers where JavaScript is turned
off).
-Netscape 3.0 recognizes several attributes of the <SCRIPT> tag,
+Netscape 3.0 recognizes several attributes of the <script> tag,
including LANGUAGE and SRC. The latter is particularly interesting,
as it allows you to keep the JavaScript code in a file or CGI script
rather than cluttering up each page with the source. To use these
);
-A final feature allows you to incorporate multiple <SCRIPT> sections into the
+A final feature allows you to incorporate multiple <script> sections into the
header. Just pass the list of script sections as an array reference.
this allows you to specify different source files for different dialects
of JavaScript. Example:
}
]
);
- </pre>
If this looks a bit extreme, take my advice and stick with straight CGI scripting.
=item 2.
-The author's e-mail address (will create a <LINK REV="MADE"> tag if present
+The author's e-mail address (will create a <link rev="MADE"> tag if present
=item 3.
-A 'true' flag if you want to include a <BASE> tag in the header. This
+A 'true' flag if you want to include a <base> tag in the header. This
helps resolve relative addresses to absolute ones when the document is moved,
but makes the document hierarchy non-portable. Use with care!
=item 4, 5, 6...
-Any other parameters you want to include in the <BODY> tag. This is a good
+Any other parameters you want to include in the <body> tag. This is a good
place to put Netscape extensions, such as colors and wallpaper patterns.
=back
print $query->end_html
-This ends an HTML document by printing the </BODY></HTML> tags.
+This ends an HTML document by printing the </body></html> tags.
=head2 CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION:
$myself = $query->self_url;
- print q(<A HREF="$myself">I'm talking to myself.</A>);
+ print q(<a href="$myself">I'm talking to myself.</a>);
self_url() will return a URL, that, when selected, will reinvoke
this script with all its state information intact. This is most
of the form(s). Something like this will do the trick.
$myself = $query->self_url;
- print "<A HREF=$myself#table1>See table 1</A>";
- print "<A HREF=$myself#table2>See table 2</A>";
- print "<A HREF=$myself#yourself>See for yourself</A>";
+ print "<a href=$myself#table1>See table 1</a>";
+ print "<a href=$myself#table2>See table 2</a>";
+ print "<a href=$myself#yourself>See for yourself</a>";
If you want more control over what's returned, using the B<url()>
method instead.
<blockquote>
Many years ago on the island of
- <a HREF="http://crete.org/">Crete</a> there lived
+ <a href="http://crete.org/">Crete</a> there lived
a minotaur named <strong>Fred.</strong>
</blockquote>
<hr>
The HTML methods will accept zero, one or multiple arguments. If you
provide no arguments, you get a single tag:
- print hr; # <HR>
+ print hr; # <hr>
If you provide one or more string arguments, they are concatenated
together with spaces and placed between opening and closing tags:
- print h1("Chapter","1"); # <H1>Chapter 1</H1>"
+ print h1("Chapter","1"); # <h1>Chapter 1</h1>"
If the first argument is an associative array reference, then the keys
and values of the associative array become the HTML tag's attributes:
print a({-href=>'fred.html',-target=>'_new'},
"Open a new frame");
- <A HREF="fred.html",TARGET="_new">Open a new frame</A>
+ <a href="fred.html",target="_new">Open a new frame</a>
You may dispense with the dashes in front of the attribute names if
you prefer:
print img {src=>'fred.gif',align=>'LEFT'};
- <IMG ALIGN="LEFT" SRC="fred.gif">
+ <img align="LEFT" src="fred.gif">
Sometimes an HTML tag attribute has no argument. For example, ordered
lists can be marked as COMPACT. The syntax for this is an argument
Prior to CGI.pm version 2.41, providing an empty ('') string as an
attribute argument was the same as providing undef. However, this has
changed in order to accommodate those who want to create tags of the form
-<IMG ALT="">. The difference is shown in these two pieces of code:
+<img alt="">. The difference is shown in these two pieces of code:
- CODE RESULT
- img({alt=>undef}) <IMG ALT>
- img({alt=>''}) <IMT ALT="">
+ CODE RESULT
+ img({alt=>undef}) <img alt>
+ img({alt=>''}) <img alt="">
=head2 THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS
This example will result in HTML output that looks like this:
- <UL>
- <LI TYPE="disc">Sneezy</LI>
- <LI TYPE="disc">Doc</LI>
- <LI TYPE="disc">Sleepy</LI>
- <LI TYPE="disc">Happy</LI>
- </UL>
+ <ul>
+ <li type="disc">Sneezy</li>
+ <li type="disc">Doc</li>
+ <li type="disc">Sleepy</li>
+ <li type="disc">Happy</li>
+ </ul>
This is extremely useful for creating tables. For example:
It will ordinarily return the string that you probably expect, namely:
- <BLOCKQUOTE><EM>Hi</EM> mom!</BLOCKQUOTE>
+ <blockquote><em>Hi</em> mom!</blockquote>
Note the space between the element "Hi" and the element "mom!".
CGI.pm puts the extra space there using array interpolation, which is
print $query->isindex($action);
-Prints out an <ISINDEX> tag. Not very exciting. The parameter
+Prints out an <isindex> tag. Not very exciting. The parameter
-action specifies the URL of the script to process the query. The
default is to process the query with the current script.
<... various form stuff ...>
print $query->endform;
-start_form() will return a <FORM> tag with the optional method,
+start_form() will return a <form> tag with the optional method,
action and form encoding that you specify. The defaults are:
method: POST
action: this script
enctype: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
-endform() returns the closing </FORM> tag.
+endform() returns the closing </form> tag.
Start_form()'s enctype argument tells the browser how to package the various
fields of the form before sending the form to the server. Two
can put up an alert box or maybe fix things up yourself. You can
abort the submission by returning false from this function.
-Usually the bulk of JavaScript functions are defined in a <SCRIPT>
+Usually the bulk of JavaScript functions are defined in a <script>
block in the HTML header and -onSubmit points to one of these function
call. See start_html() for details.
=item 1. Create a <Frameset> document
After writing out the HTTP header, instead of creating a standard
-HTML document using the start_html() call, create a <FRAMESET>
+HTML document using the start_html() call, create a <frameset>
document that defines the frames on the page. Specify your script(s)
(with appropriate parameters) as the SRC for each of the frames.
-There is no specific support for creating <FRAMESET> sections
+There is no specific support for creating <frameset> sections
in CGI.pm, but the HTML is very simple to write. See the frame
documentation in Netscape's home pages for details
use for targets. See the frame documents on Netscape's home pages for
details.
-=item 3. Specify the destination for the document in the <FORM> tag
+=item 3. Specify the destination for the document in the <form> tag
You can specify the frame to load in the FORM tag itself. With
CGI.pm it looks like this:
To incorporate a stylesheet into your document, pass the
start_html() method a B<-style> parameter. The value of this
parameter may be a scalar, in which case it is incorporated directly
-into a <STYLE> section, or it may be a hash reference. In the latter
+into a <style> section, or it may be a hash reference. In the latter
case you should provide the hash with one or more of B<-src> or
B<-code>. B<-src> points to a URL where an externally-defined
stylesheet can be found. B<-code> points to a scalar value to be
-incorporated into a <STYLE> section. Style definitions in B<-code>
+incorporated into a <style> section. Style definitions in B<-code>
override similarly-named ones in B<-src>, hence the name "cascading."
You may also specify the type of the stylesheet by adding the optional
Produces something that looks like:
- <UL>
- <LI>name1
- <UL>
- <LI>value1
- <LI>value2
- </UL>
- <LI>name2
- <UL>
- <LI>value1
- </UL>
- </UL>
+ <ul>
+ <li>name1
+ <ul>
+ <li>value1
+ <li>value2
+ </ul>
+ <li>name2
+ <ul>
+ <li>value1
+ </ul>
+ </ul>
As a shortcut, you can interpolate the entire CGI object into a string
and it will be replaced with the a nice HTML dump shown above:
$query=new CGI;
- print "<H2>Current Values</H2> $query\n";
+ print "<h2>Current Values</h2> $query\n";
=head1 FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
print $query->header;
print $query->start_html("Example CGI.pm Form");
- print "<H1> Example CGI.pm Form</H1>\n";
+ print "<h1> Example CGI.pm Form</h1>\n";
&print_prompt($query);
&do_work($query);
&print_tail;
my($query) = @_;
print $query->start_form;
- print "<EM>What's your name?</EM><BR>";
+ print "<em>What's your name?</em><br>";
print $query->textfield('name');
print $query->checkbox('Not my real name');
- print "<P><EM>Where can you find English Sparrows?</EM><BR>";
+ print "<p><em>Where can you find English Sparrows?</em><br>";
print $query->checkbox_group(
-name=>'Sparrow locations',
-values=>[England,France,Spain,Asia,Hoboken],
-linebreak=>'yes',
-defaults=>[England,Asia]);
- print "<P><EM>How far can they fly?</EM><BR>",
+ print "<p><em>How far can they fly?</em><br>",
$query->radio_group(
-name=>'how far',
-values=>['10 ft','1 mile','10 miles','real far'],
-default=>'1 mile');
- print "<P><EM>What's your favorite color?</EM> ";
+ print "<p><em>What's your favorite color?</em> ";
print $query->popup_menu(-name=>'Color',
-values=>['black','brown','red','yellow'],
-default=>'red');
print $query->hidden('Reference','Monty Python and the Holy Grail');
- print "<P><EM>What have you got there?</EM><BR>";
+ print "<p><em>What have you got there?</em><br>";
print $query->scrolling_list(
-name=>'possessions',
-values=>['A Coconut','A Grail','An Icon',
-size=>5,
-multiple=>'true');
- print "<P><EM>Any parting comments?</EM><BR>";
+ print "<p><em>Any parting comments?</em><br>";
print $query->textarea(-name=>'Comments',
-rows=>10,
-columns=>50);
- print "<P>",$query->reset;
+ print "<p>",$query->reset;
print $query->submit('Action','Shout');
print $query->submit('Action','Scream');
print $query->endform;
- print "<HR>\n";
+ print "<hr>\n";
}
sub do_work {
my($query) = @_;
my(@values,$key);
- print "<H2>Here are the current settings in this form</H2>";
+ print "<h2>Here are the current settings in this form</h2>";
foreach $key ($query->param) {
- print "<STRONG>$key</STRONG> -> ";
+ print "<strong>$key</strong> -> ";
@values = $query->param($key);
- print join(", ",@values),"<BR>\n";
+ print join(", ",@values),"<br>\n";
}
}
sub print_tail {
print <<END;
- <HR>
- <ADDRESS>Lincoln D. Stein</ADDRESS><BR>
- <A HREF="/">Home Page</A>
+ <hr>
+ <address>Lincoln D. Stein</address><br>
+ <a href="/">Home Page</a>
END
}
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