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.IX Title "AppConfig::CGI 3"
.TH AppConfig::CGI 3 2023-07-25 "perl v5.38.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
AppConfig::CGI \- Perl5 module for processing CGI script parameters.
.SH SYNOPSIS
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\&    use AppConfig::CGI;
\&
\&    my $state = AppConfig::State\->new(\e%cfg);
\&    my $cgi   = AppConfig::CGI\->new($state);
\&
\&    $cgi\->parse($cgi_query);
\&    $cgi\->parse();               # looks for CGI query in environment
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.SH OVERVIEW
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AppConfig::CGI is a Perl5 module which implements a CGI interface to 
AppConfig.  It examines the QUERY_STRING environment variable, or a string
passed explicitly by parameter, which represents the additional parameters
passed to a CGI query.  This is then used to update variable values in an
AppConfig::State object accordingly.
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AppConfig::CGI is distributed as part of the AppConfig bundle.
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.SS "USING THE AppConfig::CGI MODULE"
.IX Subsection "USING THE AppConfig::CGI MODULE"
To import and use the AppConfig::CGI module the following line should appear
in your Perl script:
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\&    use AppConfig::CGI;
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AppConfig::CGI is used automatically if you use the AppConfig module
and create an AppConfig::CGI object through the \fBcgi()\fR method.
AppConfig::CGI is implemented using object-oriented methods.  A new
AppConfig::CGI object is created and initialised using the \fBnew()\fR
method.  This returns a reference to a new AppConfig::CGI object.  A
reference to an AppConfig::State object should be passed in as the
first parameter:
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\&    my $state = AppConfig::State\->new(); 
\&    my $cgi   = AppConfig::CGI\->new($state);
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This will create and return a reference to a new AppConfig::CGI object.
.SS "PARSING CGI QUERIES"
.IX Subsection "PARSING CGI QUERIES"
The \f(CWparse()\fR method is used to parse a CGI query which can be specified 
explicitly, or is automatically extracted from the "QUERY_STRING" CGI 
environment variable.  This currently limits the module to only supporting 
the GET method.
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See AppConfig for information about using the AppConfig::CGI
module via the \fBcgi()\fR method.
.SH AUTHOR
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Andy Wardley, \f(CW\*(C`<abw@wardley.org<gt\*(C'\fR>
.SH COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (C) 1997\-2007 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.
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Copyright (C) 1997,1998 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.
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This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 
under the same terms as Perl itself.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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AppConfig, AppConfig::State