AppConfig::CGI (3pm)

    use AppConfig::CGI;

    my $state = AppConfig::State->new(\%cfg);
    my $cgi   = AppConfig::CGI->new($state);

    $cgi->parse($cgi_query);
    $cgi->parse();               # looks for CGI query in environment

AppConfig::CGI is a Perl5 module which implements a \s-1CGI\s0 interface to AppConfig. It examines the \s-1QUERY_STRING\s0 environment variable, or a string passed explicitly by parameter, which represents the additional parameters passed to a \s-1CGI\s0 query. This is then used to update variable values in an AppConfig::State object accordingly.

AppConfig::CGI is distributed as part of the AppConfig bundle.

\s-1USING\s0 \s-1THE\s0 AppConfig::CGI \s-1MODULE\s0

To import and use the AppConfig::CGI module the following line should appear in your Perl script:

use AppConfig::CGI;

AppConfig::CGI is used automatically if you use the AppConfig module and create an AppConfig::CGI object through the cgi() method. AppConfig::CGI is implemented using object-oriented methods. A new AppConfig::CGI object is created and initialised using the new() method. This returns a reference to a new AppConfig::CGI object. A reference to an AppConfig::State object should be passed in as the first parameter:

my $state = AppConfig::State->new(); my $cgi = AppConfig::CGI->new($state);

This will create and return a reference to a new AppConfig::CGI object.

\s-1PARSING\s0 \s-1CGI\s0 \s-1QUERIES\s0

The \*(C`parse()\*(C' method is used to parse a \s-1CGI\s0 query which can be specified explicitly, or is automatically extracted from the \*(L"\s-1QUERY_STRING\s0\*(R" \s-1CGI\s0 environment variable. This currently limits the module to only supporting the \s-1GET\s0 method.

See AppConfig for information about using the AppConfig::CGI module via the cgi() method.

Andy Wardley, \*(C`<[email protected]<gt\*(C'>

Copyright (C) 1997-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.

Copyright (C) 1997,1998 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AppConfig, AppConfig::State