CGI Scripting

Suggested Reading

Chapters 2, 5 & 9 of How to Set Up a Web Site.

Lecture Notes

• A CGI Script that Creates Plain Text
• A CGI Script that Creates HTML
• A CGI Script that Does Something Useful
• Form Elements
• Using CGI.pm
• Generating HTML easily
• CGI Shortcuts
• The Cosmids Program with CGI.pm
• Recovering CGI parameters
• Generating Forms
• A Reverse Complementation Page
• Uploading Files

Retrieving WWW Pages from Perl

• Retrieving data from GET programs
• Retrieving data from POST programs

CGI Exercises

Problem #1

Write a CGI script that prompts the user for his or her name and age. When the user presses the submit button, convert the age into "dog years" (divide by 7) and print the result.

Problem #2

Accept a DNA sequence and break it into codons (like the codons.pl program).

Extra credit: Translate the codons into protein.