NAME CGI::CIPP - Use CIPP embedded HTML Pages in a CGI environment DESCRIPTION CGI::CIPP is a Perl module which enables you to use CIPP on every CGI capable webserver. It is based on a central wrapper script, which does all the preprocessing. It executes the generated Perl code directly afterwards. Additionally, it implements a filesystem based cache for the generated code. Preprocessing is done only when the corresponding CIPP source code changed on disk, otherwise this step is skipped. WHAT IS CIPP? CIPP is a Perl module for translating CIPP sources to pure Perl programs. CIPP defines a HTML embedding language also called CIPP which has powerful features for CGI and database developers. Many standard CGI and database operations (and much more) are covered by CIPP, so the developer does not need to code them again and again. CIPP is not part of this distribution, please download it from CPAN. SIMPLE CIPP EXAMPLE To give you some imagination of what you can do with CIPP: here is a (really) simple example of using CIPP in a HTML source to retrieve some information from a database. Think this as a HTML page which is "executed" on the fly by your webserver. Note: there is no code to connect to the database. This is done implicitely. The configuration is taken from the central CGI::CIPP wrapper srcipt. # print table of users who match the given parameter tiny litte CIPP example

Users matching '$search_name'

NameAdressPhone
$n$a$p
SYNOPSIS Create a CGI program in a directory, where CGI programs usually reside on your server (e.g. /cgi-bin/cipp), or configure this program another way to be a CGI program. This program is the central CGI::CIPP wrapper. It only consists of a single class method call to the CGI::CIPP module, with a hash of parameters for configuration. This is a example: #!/usr/local/bin/perl use strict; use CGI::CIPP; CGI::CIPP->request ( document_root => '/www/htdocs/cippstuff', wrapper_url => '/cgi-bin/cipp', directoy_index => 'index.cipp', cache_dir => '/tmp/cipp_cache', databases => { test => { data_source => 'dbi:mysql:test', user => 'dbuser', password => 'dbpassword', auto_commit => 1 }, foo => { ... } } default_database => 'test', lang => 'EN' ); See the embedded POD documentation for details about configuring CGI::CIPP, particularly see the Apache and CGI::SpeedyCGI configuration hints. They will make your life easier. The file 'cipp.cgi' is part of this distribution. It is a example for a CGI::CIPP wrapper script. Copy and modify it for your needs. AUTHOR Joern Reder COPYRIGHT Copyright 1998-1999 Joern Reder, All Rights Reserved This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO perl(1), CIPP(3pm), Apache::CIPP(3pm), CGI::SpeedyCGI(3pm)