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HTML link define variable for search script?
Posted by TedH (TedH), 22 September 2004
How do I get an HTML link to define a variable that is used in a search script?I have tried to no avail and just can't my head around it
FFDB:
data.txt
Duck|Donald|...rest of record
Smith|John|...rest of record
Dunn|Al|...rest of record
HTML page/script Link:
<html><head><title></title></head><body>
<a href="
??">D</a></body></html>
Objective:
To return all records beginning with D (this works fine if $let is defined within the script as shown below).
Perl script:
ltrs.pl
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#!/usr/bin/perl
# ltrs.pl - List specific letter records
# use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
$let='D'; #### Now I have to make this an input from a link
# This works great as is. But I want it to work
# from an HTML link on a web page or in another script
#
??$datafile = "data.txt"; # name & location of file
&showAlpha;
$count=0;
sub showAlpha {
$data_file="$datafile";
open(DAT, $data_file) || die("could not open");
@rawdata=<DAT>;
close(DAT);
foreach $line (sort @rawdata) {
print "<table align=center width=200>\n";
$line=~s/\n//g;
@column=split /\|/, "$line";
$count++;
if ($column[0] =~ /^$let.*/i) {
print "<TR bgcolor=#eeeeee><td><B>$column[1] $column[0]</B><br>$column[2]<p>\n";
print "</td></TR>\n";
}
print "</table>\n";
}
}
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I figure that if it works from D, it will work on all letters of the alphabet.
Hope someone can help - thanks, Ted
Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 22 September 2004
I'm not totally with your exact question Ted, but I think the following demonstration illustrates what you're looking for. We have a data file with all the postcodes for the UK listed in it (they start with letters) and the script initially offer you a choice of dtarting letters. When you select a letter, it gives you all the matches to that particular letter.See it running at:
http://www.wellho.net/cgi-bin/demo/letterlinks.pl
Here's the code:
Code:
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Here is some of the data:
Code:
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Posted by TedH (TedH), 22 September 2004
Hi Graham, thanks. This looks like 'very deep' code to me as I've only been doing stuff at the fringe of Perl (I used to have a site named Scriptles and would pretty code up to make it look better).At first it wouldn't work but did after I moved the content type html to top of page with print tag.
It calls up the data okay from my file, but I do not know how to make it so it looks good and get rid of the pipes as it does in the original code I posted. Normally I put results into an html table within a print block, controlled from a split.[i][/i]
Duck|Donald|...rest of record
Dunn|Al|...rest of record
2 matches to D
How do I do this with the code you've written?
I've tried several things but they caused the script to fail - it's like there's no room.
Note: This is being tested on a local testbed server (Nusphere Technology Platform) and works from within it's server (but not DZ Perl editor).
Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 22 September 2004
Yeah ... I guess I performed an awful lot of (awful) things in $ukzones = join("<br>",@nr = grep(/^$letter/,(<FH>)[0..123]))
Try instead:
@nr = grep(/^$letter/,<FH>);
@nr2 = map(s/\|/ /g,@nr);
$ukzones = join("<br>",@nr2);
I've taken out the 124 record limit (my original data file included all the USA zip codes further down) and split the task into three lines to help make it easier for you to patch. The map function takes each string in the list @nr, replaces pipe characters by spaces in each element, and writes them to a new list @nr2.
Posted by TedH (TedH), 22 September 2004
Graham - works fine. <Yeah ... I guess I performed an awful lot of (awful) things in
< $ukzones = join("<br>",@nr = grep(/^$letter/,(<FH>)[0..123]))
Guess you did
Neat though.I won't be able to fit it in today, but will stick it up on my server tomorrow so yourself and others can see it in action - I'll post the URL then. This particular idea is one that no Perl manual covers (without totally losing novices). Usually searches are performed and taught using forms. A alphabetical list like this can be used for several different types of applications - you could even build an encyclopedia base on this.
A number of issues still have to be sorted out for the entire address book, but will eventually be included on my new site at http://graythorne.homeip.net/scripts.html (you'll get credit for this as usual). Some of the old Scriptles scripts are already there.
Many thanks - Ted Hawkins
The script
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#!/usr/bin/perl
# Will be a required file on address book home page script.
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
if ($ENV{QUERY_STRING} =~ /letter=(\w)/) {
$letter = $1;
open (FH,"data.txt");
@nr = grep(/^$letter/,<FH>);
# @nr2 = map(s/\|/ /g,@nr); # this caused single line with no break - dropped
foreach $line (sort @nr) {
print "<table align=center width=200>\n";
$line=~s/\n//g;
@column=split /\|/, "$line";
$count++;
if ($column[0] =~ /^$let.*/i) {
print "<TR bgcolor=#eeeeee><td><B>$column[1] $column[0]</b><br>$column[2]<p>\n";
print "</td></TR>\n";
}
print "</table>\n";
}
# $ukzones = join("<br>",@nr); # This caused double entry - dropped
$ukzones .= "<P> <b>Number of $letter entries = </b> ".scalar(@nr)." ";
}
for $let("A".."Z") {
$linx .= "<A href=?letter=$let><b>$let</b></a> ";
}
print <<PAGE;
$linx
<P>
$ukzones
<P>
<small>Copyright Well House Consultants, 2004</small>
PAGE
Posted by TedH (TedH), 23 September 2004
For those of you who have been following this thread you can see the first incarnation of the address book at:http://graythorne.homeip.net/gab.html
I still have a lot to do on this before I feel it's ready for downloading.
Thanks to Graham for this.
I'm sure some of you will have a go with the script too
- Ted
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