KAL
Lab #2
Web Page Forms
In this lab, we will learn how to create Forms that allow reader input on
our Web pages. First let's learn a bit about
CGI because it is a cgi-script that executes when the information
typed into a Form is submitted.
Because a later lab will teach about cgi-scripts, your form will
execute a
Perl Script prewritten by me that processes the form
when the submit button is pressed.
We'll create a form that's a guestbook that users can use when they
visit your page.
- Get the
HTML source for your guestbook and change it to say what you'd like.
Leave the kal@cs.wpi.edu for now.
- Change the permissions on it as usual.
- Now access this page with your browser.
- If everything worked, a message was sent to me. Now
let's change the guestbook form to send mail to you
when the Submit button is clicked. You'll begin this by changing the
address kal@cs.wpi.edu (there are two of them)
to your email address.
- Now you'll have to go into the cgi-bin directory (I'll tell
you the address), and copy .../kal/guest.pl to your cgi-bin account.
Edit this appropriately. Then change the address of this file in
your EDguest.html - where you find the reference to "guest.pl". Don't
forget to replace "/kal/" with your cgi-bin user name.
- Check out your guestbook with your browser.
More about cgi
Michael Grobe on Forms and CGI Scripts
John McCrorey's Summer 1997 project
