[Za-pm] Maintaining state

Fri Sep 12 05:13:33 CDT 2003

What do you mean with CGI/ServerPage intervention? I'm open for any
suggestions.

The only thing I can think of is parsing it like so:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw/:standard/;
# Define field variables here from MySQL data queries after login.
# Open DB etc...
$name = param('name'); # etc...

open HTML, "<htmlpage.html";
	while (<HTML>) {
		# code here with form fields containing perl variables as
values in html page.
		# ...
		print;
	}
close HTML;
# End here

Do you think this will work? Still have the problem of parsing the values to
the next link though.

Cheers,
Werner

-----Original Message-----
From: Nico Coetzee [mailto:nico at itfirms.co.za]
Sent: 11 September 2003 17:01
To: Werner Moller; 'za-pm at mail.pm.org'
Subject: Re: [Za-pm] Maintaining state

Virtually  impossible - you need some server side CGI/ServerPage
intervention.

On Thursday 11 September 2003 09:54, Werner Moller wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I need to maintain state (cookies, variables, sticky widgets or something)
> on a website where users log in and need to retrieve their information.
> However, the html pages and forms have already been designed with
> DreamweaverMX which rules out dynamic page generation with CGI. How do I
go
> about retrieving information and placing it on the fields in the html
pages
> after the user have logged in? I've completed the "Registration" scripts
> which place the information into a MySQL database.
>
> Werner Moller
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