On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Geospectrum <alan.hunt...@geospectrum.co.uk > wrote:
> Hi am am setting up a small website and have set up formmail.pl to > create a way of people asking questions. > > I'd like now to add a way of visitors to display a HTML page by > entering a number (invoice number) into a HTML form and then retrieve > a html page. So I create a html page called http://www.mysite/1234.html > and the user types in 1234 into the form and the page > http://www.mysite/1234.html > is retrived and displayed. > > I imagine I could use the perl script to create the full url and > display the page by conctenating the domain name, invoice number > and .html but I really have no idea about how to do this. Can I use > the GET method of the form? I am hoping someone can point me towards a > tutorial or offer up some snippets. > > > lets go simple and then go pro here. simple (bad) use cgi get. so www.example.com/script.pl?1234 and do something like (untested, should work): my $page = $cgi->param( 'page' ); print $cgi->redirect( $page . ".html" ); however, you probably want to use template toolkit if you're doing simple perl pages. personally, i use catalyst and javascript to render data (so i don't do too much in template toolkit). if you do catalyst, you might setup a model that looks something like this: my $page = $c->req->param->{page}; $c->forware( "View::" . $page ); which would forward you to that tt view when you get that request. i don't like either of these ways of doing it and if you wanted to do exactly as you asked, just open a file handle and dump. though, my preference really is to return json data and use js to render :) also, this is more meta code than code - you need to do checking and what not. i'm not sure if cgi.pm does anything to prevent me from doing: www.example.com/script.pl?page=rm%20-rf%20<whatever the symbol is for '/'>%20 which may do something like: rm -rf / .html (html wouldn't match but / would - not good)
