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Documentation for: cgibasic.rTITLE CGI common procedures SUMMARY These are common procedure that can be used in CGI programs to make it easier to write them, without having to remember some of the technical details of CGI programs. DOCUMENTATION Include the module in your program with do %cgi.r If the module is not in the current directory, specify the full name either with a drive letter or a UNC name in the REBOL syntax. Usually, your program will be executed by the web server in response to a request from a web browser. Also usually, there will be data availble from some sort of HTML form. In the HTML form, the INPUT items will be identified by the "NAME" attribute. To get your hands on the data from the form, use this procedure: CGI-GET-INPUT This procedure detects the proper source of the input data (GET or POST) and reads the data, and then assembles it into an object. Each data item can be referenced using the "path" syntax of CGI-INPUT/data-name-1 where "data-name-1" is the name sepecified in the "NAME" attribute. After processing any input, your program will display some HTML output. There are two main ways of doing that. What you are going to do in general is build up a full HTML page in memory and then "print" it with the "print" function, which will cause the page to be sent back to the web server and then the web browser. But before you do that, you must print some special headers with this function: CGI-DISPLAY-HEADER To build up that HTML page that you will print, there are two ways. Each way has the common end point of appending some HTML coding to the end of that big page in memory. The first way is to construct HTML in your program. You can do this a line at a time, or several lines at a time. The HTML can contain rebol words, because it will be reduced. Build you HTML in a word and then do: CGI-EMIT-HTML data-name-2 Where data-name-2 is that rebol word that contains your HTML line(s). The second way is to make a separate file of HTML. In this HTML file, you may embed rebol code inside <% and %> tags. This code will be evaluated, and the results of the evaluation will replace the rebol code and its surrounding tags. This is sort of what PHP does. The rebol code can reference words in your program, so that is how you can get data that is in your program put into HTML. Do this: CGI-EMIT-FILE file-name-1 Where file-name-1 is the name of that file of HTML code with the optional embedded rebol code. When you have built up a full HTML page, it is your own responsibility to send it to the web server with the following command: print CGI-OUTPUT There is another somewhat-related service supplied by this module. Sometimes a program is written to display HTML not to be interpreted by a browser, but to be shown as HTML. That can be done with: data-name-3: CGI-ENCODE-HTML data-name-4 where data-name-4 is an HTML fragment, and data-name-3 is that same fragment with the tag markers ("<" and ">") replaced the the code that causes them to be shown by the browser. Notes
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