NAME¶

RefDB::CGI - CGI support for RefDB Perl scripts

SYNOPSIS¶

  use RefDB::CGI;
  if (RefDB::CGI::check_cgi("GET") == 0) {
      $template = RefDB::CGI::load_html("/usr/local/share/myapp/template.html");
  }

DESCRIPTION¶

Provides functions important to run RefDB scripts as CGI applications.

FEEDBACK¶

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AUTHOR¶

Markus Hoenicka, markus@mhoenicka.de

SEE ALSO¶

This module is part of the RefDB package, a reference manager and bibliography tool for markup languages. Please visit http://refdb.sourceforge.net for further information.

package functions¶

check_cgi¶

Title : check_cgi Usage : $cgi = check_cgi($mode); Function: Checks whether app runs as a CGI app accepting GET or POST data Argument: mode: either "GET" or "POST" Returns : 0 if CGI app called properly
1 if incorrect mode
2 if missing content length of POST data
3 if not CGI at all

load_html¶

Title : load_html Usage : $template = load_html("full/path/to/template.html") Function: Reads a HTML template into a string Returns : string if file was found, undef if not