TheMatrix
August 28th, 2011, 08:28 PM
Perl-CGI is really difficult.
No it's not, once you get the hang of it. It's much easier than PHP, IMHO.
Basically, a simple script looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use CGI; #Include the CGI module
my $CGI = new CGI; #Initialize the CGI object
#Get a URL parameter
my $param1 = $CGI->param( "param1" ) || "something_else"; #This would be ?param1=xy, or "something_else", if that is not set
#Print the header -- mandatory. PHP does this automatically, unless you specify a different value using "header()"
print $CGI->header( "text/html" );
#Print the HTML
print qq`
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The value of param1 is <b>$param1</b></p>
</body>
</html>
`;
Though I really want to learn more Javascript than I already do.
TBH, you can't do very many impressive things with just javascript anymore.
It's all JQuery and AJAX nowadays.