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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Perl and the Common Gateway Interface - out of fashion but still very useful?

Is the Common Gateway Interface dead? No - it isn't; although my first choice for a new web application these days would be something else (PHP, Java with Servlets, JSPs or a derivative, Python with Django, Ruby with Rails ...), there are often times that I'll have a bit of code that I've run away from the web and I want to run it on-line - and quickly wrapping the code with some CGI stuff will get it available fast.

With CGI, you can take code that's running in any language that your web server supports, and with careful use of the STDIN (a.k.a. pseudo keyboard inputs), environment variables, and (occasionally) command line inputs, you can feel the code with input data as if it was running from the command line. For output, you simply write your code as if you're outputting to the screen / window in a command line based application, and your web server will route that output back to the browser.

I've taken the code from my previous entry here, that looked for a Christmas *something* in all the various railway station names, and put in on line [here]. Easy - or rather fairly easy. In practice, there's a need to add a lot of user documentation, to take away the interaction as all data is fed in at the start, to check that the users have made sensible inputs and to secure the script against people trying to hack in to the server using it, so the code ends up a bit longer that you might have expected. See [here].

We're still covering CGI as part of our Using Perl on the Web course ... and that's a follow on from our Perl Programming course where you can learn the basics.

(written 2009-12-26, updated 2010-01-06)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
P403 - Perl - The Common Gateway Interface
  [45] CGI v mod_perl - (2004-09-11)
  [2238] Handling nasty characters - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, Lua - (2009-06-14)
  [2834] Teaching examples in Perl - third and final part - (2010-06-27)
  [3445] Perl and CGI - simple form, and monitoring script. - (2011-09-17)

P221 - Perl on the Web
  [433] FTP - how to make the right transfers - (2005-09-01)
  [493] Running a Perl script within a PHP page - (2005-11-12)
  [590] Danny and Donna are getting married - (2006-02-03)
  [641] Simple but rugged form handling demo - (2006-03-10)
  [662] An unhelpful error message from Apache httpd - (2006-03-30)
  [687] Presentation, Business and Persistence layers in Perl and PHP - (2006-04-17)
  [975] Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions - (2006-12-09)
  [1198] From Web to Web 2 - (2007-05-21)
  [3875] Using CGI and Perl to put a simple application online. Sometimes still the best way. - (2012-09-30)


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