#!/usr/local/bin/perl5 ##++ ## CGI Lite v1.62 ## Last modified: January 17, 1996 ## ## Copyright (c) 1995 by Shishir Gundavaram ## All Rights Reserved ## ## E-Mail: shishir@ora.com ## ## Permission to use, copy, and distribute is hereby granted, ## providing that the above copyright notice and this permission ## appear in all copies and in supporting documentation. ##-- ############################################################################### =head1 NAME CGI Lite v1.62 - Perl 5.0 module to process and decode WWW form information =head1 SYNOPSIS use CGI_Lite; $form = new CGI_Lite (); $form->set_platform ("UNIX" or "PC" or "Macintosh"); $form->set_file_type ("handle" or "file"); $status = $form->set_directory ("/some/dir"); $form->set_directory ("/some/dir") || die "Directory doesn't exist.\n"; $reference_to_hash = $form->parse_form_data (); %hash = $form->parse_form_data (); $form->print_form_data (); =head1 DESCRIPTION The module can be used to handle and decode WWW form information. Both GET and POST requests can be processed. In the case of POST requests, the information can be one of two possible MIME types: application/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-data This module is very light-weight, and can be thought of as an enhanced version of the old cgi-lib.pl library for Perl 4.0 by Steven Brenner I<(S.E.Brenner@bioc.cam.ac.uk)>. =head2 Form Creation Here is an example of a simple form that uses the I attribute in the I statement to present the user with the capability to upload a file: CGI Lite Test

CGI Lite Test


What is your name?

Select a file to send:


=head2 multipart/form-data MIME header Here is what a multipart/form-data header looks like (as of Netscape 2.0b1): -----------------------------239891195122666 Content-disposition: form-data; name="full_name" Foo Bar -----------------------------239891195122666 Content-disposition: form-data; name="picture"; filename="/bar.gif" Content-type: image/gif ... GIF Data ... -----------------------------239891195122666 Content-disposition: form-data; name="readme"; filename="/bar.txt" ... Text Data ... -----------------------------239891195122666-- =head1 METHODS Here are the methods you can use to process your forms: =over 5 =item B This will handle all types of requests: GET, HEAD and POST (for both encoding methods). For multipart/form-data, uploaded files are stored in the user selected directory (see B). The files are named in the following format: /some/dir/filename.timestamp where the filename is specified in the "Content-disposition" header. I Returns either a reference to the hash, or the hash itself, that contains all of the key/value pairs. For fields that contain file information, the value contains either the path to the file, or the filehandle (see the B method). I This module cannot handle multiple files within I field. No need to worry, Netscape 2.0 does not support this anyway. =item B This function will set the end of line characters for uploaded text files so that they will display properly on the specified platform (the platform your HTTP server is running on). You can specify either: UNIX EOL: PC EOL: Macintosh EOL: By default, "UNIX" is assumed. =item B Used to set the directory where the uploaded files will be stored (only applies to the I encoding scheme). This function should be called I you call B, or else the directory defaults to "/tmp". If the application cannot write to the directory for whatever reason, an error status is returned. I 0 Failure 1 Success =item B By default, the uploaded filename is stored in the hash that is returned by the B method. However, if you pass the string "handle" to this subroutine, the filehandles to the newly created files are returned. This function should be called I you call B, or else filenames are returned. =item B Used to display all of the key/value pairs. I None =head1 EXAMPLES Here are four examples that illustrate some of the functions of this module. You can use these directly in your form processing programs: =head2 Example 1 #!/usr/local/bin/perl5 # Prints out the key/value pairs using the print_form_data # method. use CGI_Lite; $cgi = new CGI_Lite () # The return value from the method is ignored. $cgi->parse_form_data (); print "Content-type: text/plain", "\n\n"; $cgi->print_form_data (); exit (0); =head2 Example 2 #!/usr/local/bin/perl5 # Simple example that performs the same function as the # print_form_data method. use CGI_Lite; $cgi = new CGI_Lite (); # The return value is stored in $data, which contains a # reference to the hash. In order to access an element, you have # to dereference it (i.e: $$data{'readme'} or %$data). $data = $cgi->parse_form_data (); print "Content-type: text/plain", "\n\n"; foreach $key (keys %$data) { print $key, " = ", $$data{$key}, "\n"; } exit (0); =head2 Example 3 #!/usr/local/bin/perl5 # Very much like the previous example, except for the fact that # the context of the parse_form_data method is an associative # array (no need to dereference!) use CGI_Lite; $cgi = new CGI_Lite (); %data = $cgi->parse_form_data (); print "Content-type: text/plain", "\n\n"; foreach $key (keys %data) { print $key, " = ", $data{$key}, "\n"; } exit (0); =head2 Example 4 #!/usr/local/bin/perl5 # Simple example that displays the filename associated with # the "readme" field in a multiform/form-data request. use CGI_Lite; $cgi = new CGI_Lite (); # Die if the directory is invalid (i.e doesn't exist, can't # read or write to it, or is not a directory) $cgi->set_directory ("/usr/shishir") || die "Directory doesn't exist.\n"; # Set the platform (UNIX is the default, anyway) $cgi->set_platform ("UNIX"); # Tell the module to return filehandles $cgi->set_file_type ("handle"); $data = $cgi->parse_form_data (); print "Content-type: text/plain", "\n\n"; # Dereferences the variable to get a filehandle. Then, # iterates through the file, displaying each line to STDOUT. # # NOTE: $filename also contains the name of the file. $filename = $$data{'readme'}; while (<$filename>) { print; } # Make sure to close filehandle. close ($filename); exit (0); =head2 Example 5 #!/usr/local/bin/perl5 # Simply displays the key/value pairs. Here is how the output # would look like for multipart/form-data requests: # # Content-type: text/plain # # full_name = Foo Bar # picture = /usr/shishir/bar.gif_812186386 # readme = /usr/shishir/bar.txt_812186386 use CGI_Lite; $cgi = new CGI_Lite (); $cgi->set_directory ("/usr/shishir") || die "Directory doesn't exist.\n"; $data = $cgi->parse_form_data (); print "Content-type: text/plain", "\n\n"; $cgi->print_form_data (); exit (0); =head1 SEE ALSO You should look at the various other Perl 5.0 CGI modules, and use the one that best suites you. For more information, you can subscribe to the CGI Module Development List at: I Contact: Marc Hedlund I<(hedlund@best.com)> for more information. This list is B for general CGI support. It only deals with Perl 5.0 CGI module development. The CGI modules are maintained by Lincoln Stein I<(lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu)> and can be found on his WWW site: I =head1 REVISION HISTORY =over 5 =item v1.62 - January 17, 1996 Modified the I subroutine so that it returns the name of the file as the filehandle -- if I function is called with the "handle" parameter. Added the function I to determine the calling package. =item v1.61 - January 1, 1996 Fixed a minor bug that resulted in end of line characters being removed from certain binary files. =item v1.6 - December 30, 1995 Added code to handle other header information that the browser might send after the "Content-Disposition" header. Added set_platform function so that uploaded text files display properly. The function set_file_type no longer returns a status. Fixed spacing within code. =item v1.5 - November 13, 1995 Corrected two major bugs that caused several fields to be lost (when the fields before them were either too small or too large). Added code to make sure that there are no "\r\n" characters in the regular form fields. I