Gossamer Forum: General: Perl Programming: perl script passing variable into forms question

Oct 21, 2003, 10:59 PM

papajohns

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Oct 21, 2003, 10:59 PM

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perl script passing variable into forms question

ok..im not exactly sure how to do this...so i need a hand..

i want to make a .pl script so that when i type it in the console it'll pass arguments into a cgi form on a website. ( so i dont have to launch a browser )

ie..

website www.foobar.com has a form.cgi method post with 3 classes in it... class=first, class=second, class=thrid

so how do i make it so i can pass lets say arguments 1,2,3 into the value of the 3 classes....

how do i even start?

thanx in advance.

Oct 22, 2003, 1:23 AM

Andy

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Oct 22, 2003, 1:23 AM

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Re: [papajohns] perl script passing variable into forms question In reply to

Something like this maybe?

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict; 
use CGI; 

my $IN = new CGI; 

my $field1 = $IN->param('field1'); 
my $field2 = $IN->param('field2'); 
my $field3 = $IN->param('field3'); 
my $field4 = $IN->param('field4'); 
my $field5 = $IN->param('field5'); 


print $IN->header(); 

print qq| 

<html> 
<body> 

<input type=text value="$field1" name=field1> <BR> 

<input type=text value="$field2" name=field2> <BR> 

<input type=text value="$field3" name=field3> <BR> 

<input type=text value="$field4" name=field4> <BR> 

<input type=text value="$field5" name=field5> <BR> 

</body> 
</html> 

|;

That will basically allow you to do stuff like;

http://www.site.com/cgi-bin/form.cgi?field1=valuehere&field2=another_value ... etc.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Oct 22, 2003, 1:51 AM

papajohns

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Oct 22, 2003, 1:51 AM

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Re: [Andy] perl script passing variable into forms question In reply to

mm..intersting...and then pass the entire thing through html:parser maybe so i can connect to the site with the script and pass the entire content?

Oct 22, 2003, 2:42 AM

Wil

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Oct 22, 2003, 2:42 AM

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CGI::Application may be of interest to you.

- wil

Oct 22, 2003, 4:46 AM

papajohns

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Oct 22, 2003, 4:46 AM

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Re: [Wil] perl script passing variable into forms question In reply to

got the answer i needed.. for those who wants to know...i used..

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI;
use LWP::Simple;
use strict;
my $link = "http://www.wunderground.com/...Forecast?query=60555";

my $result = get ($link);

print "$result";