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From: efflandt@xnet.com (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: CGI.pm resources... anything on the next explaining p() commands, etc?
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On 20 Jul 2000, Jon S. <jonceramic@nospammiesno.earthlink.net> wrote:
:
:I'm not sure if I'm just missing the links or if they don't exist.
:I'm trying to find documentation on the web regarding some of the
:features of CGI.pm. Stein's documentation that comes with CGI.pm
:doesn't include any detailed discussion of things like p() and font(),
:despite including them in the sample code on his book's website. Are
:there any sites that do? Any RTFM's that I've missed?
Fonts are quite simple (function method):
$f = 'Arial,Helvetica'; # set font near beginning of script
print font({face=>$f,size=>'-1'},'Something here'),p;
I learned how to do some things like tables by trial and error, since they
are not explained in perldoc CGI. For example if you want to right align
form field labels with left aligned form fields put a dot instead of comma
between td([])'s that go on the same row, for example (function method):
print start_form,table(Tr([
th({colspan=>2},['Some Header']),
td({align=>'right'},'Label1:']) . td([textfield('field1')]),
td({align=>'right'},'Label2:']) . td([textfield('field2')]),
td([' ,submit])
])),end_form;
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From: brian@smithrenaud.com (brian d foy)
Subject: Re: CGI.pm resources... anything on the next explaining p() commands, etc?
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In article <slrn8nfh43.tmf.efflandt@efflandt.xnet.com>, efflandt@xnet.com wrote:
:I learned how to do some things like tables by trial and error, since they
:are not explained in perldoc CGI.
huh? all of these things are explained in the docs.
:For example if you want to right align
:form field labels with left aligned form fields put a dot instead of comma
:between td([])'s that go on the same row, for example (function method):
:print start_form,table(Tr([
:th({colspan=>2},['Some Header']),
this is explained in the docs. all of the HTML functions can take
an anonymous hash whose keys become attributes and whose values
become, well, the attribute values. this is clearly documented.
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From: jonceramic@nospammiesno.earthlink.net (Jon S.)
Subject: Re: CGI.pm resources... anything on the next explaining p() commands, etc?
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On 20 Jul 2000 18:29:05 -0600, brian@smithrenaud.com (brian d foy)
wrote:
:In article <39771d24.8139242@news.earthlink.net>, jonceramic@nospammiesno.earthlink.net (Jon S.) wrote:
:
::I'm not sure if I'm just missing the links or if they don't exist.
::I'm trying to find documentation on the web regarding some of the
::features of CGI.pm. Stein's documentation that comes with CGI.pm
::doesn't include any detailed discussion of things like p() and font(),
:
:yes it does. which part is unclear?
Brian,
Thanks for your response (and thank you for the metaFAQ!).
I went back and did an RTFM again, and found starter information like
I hoped at: http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/cgi_docs.html#html
(the section called HTML Shortcuts)
I had skipped to that part before, read the first few bits on headers
and the like, and didn't scroll down enough to find what I needed when
I saw the next bold heading (that didn't seem relevant). For those
lurking, the relevant info starts with:
------------------------------------------
Other HTML Tags
CGI.pm provides shortcut methods for many other HTML tags. All HTML2
tags and the
Netscape extensions are supported, as well as the HTML3 tags that are
in common usage
(including tables). Unpaired tags, paired tags, and tags that contain
attributes are all supported
using a simple syntax.
To see the list of HTML tags that are supported, open up the CGI.pm
file and look at the
functions defined in the %EXPORT_TAGS array.
------------------------------------------
It goes on to explain a number of them and the syntax rules regarding
the classes of tags.
Thanks again Brian for the "RTFM". I was, as is obvious, smoking
crack at the time I posted.
Jon
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From: Thomas Jespersen <thomas@daimi.au.dk>
Subject: Re: CGI.pm resources... anything on the next explaining p() commands, etc?
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TonyG <tony@webscripts.org> writes:
: Whats it called please?
CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd Edition
By Scott Guelich, Shishir Gundavaram, and Gunther Birznieks
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cgi2/
Another interesting July release is 3rd edition of "Programming Perl"
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/
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From: Drew Simonis <care227@attglobal.net>
Subject: Re: CGI.pm resources... anything on the next explaining p() commands,
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"Jon S." wrote:
:
: Hi All,
:
: I'm not sure if I'm just missing the links or if they don't exist.
: I'm trying to find documentation on the web regarding some of the
: features of CGI.pm. Stein's documentation that comes with CGI.pm
: doesn't include any detailed discussion of things like p() and font(),
: despite including them in the sample code on his book's website. Are
: there any sites that do? Any RTFM's that I've missed?
http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/lib/CGI.html
:
: Are these features covered in his CGI.pm book?
Yes
: I can't find a copy at
: the bookstores or libraries to page through
I ordered my copy from a major chain, had it in 2 days.
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