/ 
NCGI-0.01
/ NCGI

NAME

NCGI - A Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Class

SYNOPSIS

use NCGI;
my $cgi  = NCGI->new();
my $html = $cgi->html;

$html->_goto('head');
$html->title('A Simple Example');

$html->_goto('body');
$html->h1('Simple Form');

$html->form_open();
$html->_add("What's your name? ");
$html->input({type => 'text', name => 'name'});
$html->input({type => 'submit', name => 'submit', value => 'Submit'});

$html->form_close();
$html->hr();

my $query = $cgi->query;
if ($query->{submit}) {
  $html->p('I think your name is ', $query->{name});
}


if (param()) {
  print "Your name is",em(param('name')),p,
  "The keywords are: ",em(join(", ",param('words'))),p,
  "Your favorite color is ",em(param('color')),
  hr;
}

$cgi->respond();

DESCRIPTION

NCGI has the same basic function as the well known CGI module. It is an aide for authors writing CGI scripts. The advantages over CGI are

* Smaller and simpler Codebase: 300 lines vs 7000 lines
* Modular/maintainable Codebase: separate Header, XHTML, Query Classes
* Better output: Based on XML::API for consistent XHTML
* Better debugging: in-built logging with timing functions
* Different API

The disadvantages over CGI are

* Different API
* Less features
* Probably not as portable

See http://rekudos.net/parselog/ to see it in action.

METHODS

new(%hash)

Create a "Log::Parse" object. The %hash looks approximately like this:

my %args  = (
     file        => '',
     filetype    => '',
     handlers    => '',
     libdir      => '',
     step        => '',
     rrdrra      => '',
     apache_domain => '',
     debug       => 0,
     @_
 );

but will vary depending on the type of handlers.

parse()

Parses a logfile and creates RRDs according to the configuration given for the new() method.

SEE ALSO

NCGI::Header, NCGI::Query, XML::API

AUTHOR

Mark Lawrence <nomad@null.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005 Mark Lawrence <nomad@null.net>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.