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Originally published at Internet.comI'm starting with a guestbook script because this is an effect that can be done with a very small amount of PERL code. In addition, the script shows PERL's ability to be modular very well.
The script will do three things:
We'll take each of the three modules in order over the next three Primers, but first let's take a look at the effect:
Sign my Guestbook
OK, it's not that big a deal right now, but by the time we're done with it, you'll understand it to the point where you can make it do so much more.
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The Guestbook HTML
The easy part is the HTML. It looks like this:
Guestbook.html
Just copy and paste it right from the page. You'll want to make two changes to the code. The first is the path following ACTION=. You need to alter that to reflect the path to your cgi-bin and then the name of your PERL script. I called mine guestbook.cgi. You can change it to whatever you'd like, but change that here...
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