Jul 17th 2014
Coding 101 26
Perl: Reading GET Form Actions
Hosted by
Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ,
Shannon Morse
We're talking about Perl GET forms!
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Guests:
Patrick Delahanty
The Code for today's show is available at our: GitHub
Ivory Tower
Let's talk about Forms in HTML! HTML has two different ways to "submit" data that has been entered by a user into a form.
- "GET" and "POST"
Today, we're going to talk about "GET"
- GET is the simpler of the two methods
- All it does is take whatever data the user entered into the form, and append it to the end of the "action" address
Example:
<FORM METHOD=GET ACTION="../cgi-bin/bunny.pl">
Name: <INPUT NAME="BunnyName"><br>
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT>
</FORM>
- If we type "Roger" into the "Name:" field, the URL that will be generated when we click "SUBMIT" is: "../cgi-bin/bunny.pl?BunnyName=Roger"
- Your browser will then request the server to run the script "bunny.pl" and pass it the string "BunnyName=Roger"
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