Day #1 and Week #1 example of PERL/CGI

Monday, June 11th blackboard PERL/CGI and FORM example

What is your name:

Name of a VIP friend of yours:

  1. The FORM is discussed in Chapter 7 of Elizabeth Castro book. Look over pages 84 and 86 and 87 regarding the FORM and the Text Box creation. There are two Text Boxes in the above FORM.

  2. Look over page 93 to read about the Submit button. The SUBMIT button in the above form has the Caption Celebrate Friend and has the Name friend.

  3. See page 94 of the Elizabeth Castro textbook for information about Resetting the Form using a RESET button.

  4. See a screen snapshot of the script FormJun1.cgi by clicking here for the PERL code. We will study and develop this day 1 example for at least 5 or 6 more classes, so don't worry about understanding it ALL at once. By lecture/class/lab number 8 on June 20th all of it will be clear.

  5. Click here to see a screen snapshot of the FORM and HTML code for this web page. The screen snapshot is in the pico editor window. The pico editor is the tool we will often use while working on HTML and PERL/CGI files on the chaos.cns.uni.edu computer system.

  6. Click here to see Rocky and Bullwinkle sample output annotated with PhotoShop.

  7. Much of this material (testForm.html and formJun1.cgi PERL script) will be handed out in class on Tuesday and carefully covered in future lectures and labs.