Accessing post and get in perl

[pushVTEC]

I know php I can use $_REQUEST or $_POST or $_GET, but with all my research i've done it looks like the only way to access them in perl is to parse the $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'} variable right?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Well either way you sure can't accest post data through the query string.

 

[pushVTEC]

Yeah the program i'm making uses get, I know post comes from a stdin.

Also does anyone know of a way to get a hostname from an IP address in perl? Is there a function for it or do I have to write it myself? Thanks

 

[Nothinman]

Also does anyone know of a way to get a hostname from an IP address in perl?

You want gethostbyaddr(), if you're doing perl development it would probably be a good idea to keep a copy of the perl man pages around.

 

[notfred]

HTML:

<input name="somevariable">

Perl:

use CGI qw🙂standard); # Put this line at the top of your script.
$somevar = param('somevariable');