CGI.pm Help

Edge — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:46:06 +0000

Okay, so now I'm trying to implement CGI.pm into my site, but it's messing up my scripts. I almost have it working, but sometimes it prints multiple headers and weird things like that. Any suggestions?

--Edge

Wil — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:38:23 +0000

http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/
Online documentation for CGI.pm.

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/stein/source.html
Source code examples.

If you get stuck - drop us a note in this forum and I'm sure someone will be able to help you out. I've personally got a good working knowledge of CGI.pm

Hope this helps.

Edge — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 23:55:21 +0000

LOL... thanks for showing me the light! Can you point me to any sites that can show me how to use CGI.pm better?

Re: Perl Cookie Help

Wil — Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:38:35 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Edge
Hey guys,

I'm using Matt Wright's cookie.lib (http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/)

Stop! Stop, stop, stop, stop!

Walk away from the Matt Wright archive and clear your cache and bookmarks forever! Matt Wright finished writing his code back in 1998(?) and was built on Perl 5.03. His code is full of bugs and there have been many better modules written since.

One of these modules is called CGI.pm which accomodates common CGI routines - just like the one you're trying to do. It's a part of the standard Perl dist. so you don't have to download anything.

To do what you want, try this:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

  use CGI;                    # load CGI.pm module
  my $query = CGI->new();     # create a new CGI object

  $cookie = $query->cookie (           
       -name => 'name',           
      -value => 'value',           
    -expires => '+1d',        # cookie expires after 1 day      
       -path => '/',           
     -domain => 'yourdomain.com'      	
  );

  print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie);