It’s some time that I’m exploring Perl and I like it for its wittiness. I’ve been starting using it to write some system admin scripts, but since it was a good experience I tried to write some web script too, so I will add to my notebook here how to get Request Parameters.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI;
print "Content-type: text-plain\n\n";
my $req = new CGI;
print "The value of parameter field is: ", $req->param('field'), "\n";
This script is quite simple, after the shebang I activate warnings and strict mode and include the CGI Perl module, then it outputs a minimal header, creates the CGI object and call the param method on it to get the parameter.
This all seems quite straightforward, so if I call my script adding a field parameter to the URL, the value of that parameter is going to be printed out.
However it also works with mod_perl, because it emulates a CGI interface. I actually use apache2-mod-perl2.
It gets even better than this, it also works on the command line! In the command line parameters are separated by spaces and don’t have a name, however I can write a parameter called “field=myvalue” and myvalue will be printed by the script.
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