Question

I have a simple form created using standard HTML form tags. There is nothing special about the form. It takes some simple input and runs a Perl-CGI script in the background.

What should I do such that the result of the cgi-script ( print statements et.al ) appear within the twiki framework. i.e. I would like to retain the side-bar, top screens and display the result similar to how any twiki topic looks like.

Environment

-- VaidyGanapathy - 30 Jan 2007

Answer

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You could simply %INCLUDE{"http://localhost/cgi-bin/ticker.cgi"}% to run the cgi script and render it in the wiki topic. You could also do that in an IFrame, see IFrameExample.

If needed you can create a form asking for parameters, and pass that along to the script via URL parameters, such as %INCLUDE{"http://localhost/cgi-bin/ticker.cgi?symbol=%URLPARAM{symbol}%"}%.

See example TWikiInstallation. Learn more at TWikiVariables and TWikiTemplates.

-- PeterThoeny - 30 Jan 2007

Thanks Peter, I am yet to try this but thanks again for the response.

-- VaidyGanapathy - 02 Feb 2007

Able to use iframes to render cgi scripts that have known parameters. Thank you.

-- VaidyGanapathy - 08 Feb 2007