variable, search and display
need some direction, searching a file, each line is seperate in a stored text file.
Using a variable in the address: db_id=1392
http://domain.com/cgi-bin/cs/cs.cgi?db_id=1392
Display select text from this file:
/home/2015/public_html/cgi-bin/data/As.data
As.data file contains:
1392|macdonald|01/15/2005|Gerry M|Private Seller|FOR SALE:|1997 Ford Mustang|Red with black interior
example url:
http://domain.com/cgi-bin/cs/cs.cgi?db_id=1392
example HTML on page:
1997 Ford Mustang - Private Seller
Greg K posted this at 18:22 — 17th February 2005.
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Does this have to be a .cgi script? I can give you the code to do this with PHP. Perl I would have to look up as I haven't used it since I learned PHP.
-Greg
rayzun posted this at 20:42 — 17th February 2005.
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Joined: Feb 2005
Hello
Im not sure which language Im suppose to be using fo this idea.
the template file for this has other code surrounded by "%%"
example:
%%title%%
My failed attempt to write something just shows the code entirely:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI ':standard';
my $db_id = param('db_id');
$database="/home/2015/public_html/cgi-bin/data/As.data";
open (ORGDB,"<$database");
@ODB=;
close (ORGDB);
@SODB=sort(@ODB); #sort in order by ID number.
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print qq~
~;
$title = "No Entries Found";
foreach $rec (@SODB){
chomp($rec);
($id,$lastname,$date,$name,$seller,$caption,$car,$color)=split(/\|/,$rec);
if($db_id eq $id){
$title = "$seller - $car";
}
print qq~
$title
~; %%TITLE%%
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