[Gambas-user] Gambas server pages

Mon Sep 22 19:47:46 CEST 2008

Benoit Minisini schreef:
> Hi,
>
> In the last revision of the 2.0 branch, you will find some sort of gambas 
> scripter hack that allows you to write ASP-like files that I named "Gambas 
> server pages".
>
> Put that in a text file, make it executable, and run it. Do not forget to 
> run "make install" in the app source directory to recompile and install the 
> new scripter.
>
> --8<--------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/env gbw2
> <%
> DIM sEnv AS String
> %>
>
> <!-- Variable declaration must come before any HTML -->
>
> <html>
>
> <h2>CGI script environmental variables</h2>
>
> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
>
>   <tr>
>     <th align="left">Name</th>
>     <th align="left">Value</th>
>   </tr>
>
> <% FOR EACH sEnv IN Application.Env %>
>   <tr valign="top">
>     <td><%= sEnv %></td>
>     <td><%= Application.Env[sEnv] %> </td>
>   </tr>
> <% NEXT %>
>
> </table>
>
> </html>
> --8<--------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> As you can see, the server page is a script, but the script executable 
> is 'gbw2', not 'gbs2'. 
>
> 'gbw2' is actually a symbolic link to 'gbs2'. When 'gbs2' detects than it is 
> run from the 'gbw2' symbolic link, it knows that it will have to process a 
> server page and not a script. Then 'gbs2' will transform the server page 
> into...a normal script, and will execute it.
>
> Except the initial line with the '#!/usr/bin/env gbw2' magic, the syntax is 
> very similar to ASP pages.
>
> * <% XXX %> introduces any Gambas code.
>
> * <%= XXX %> evaluates a Gambas expression, translates it into HTML, and 
> inserts the HTML inline.
>
> Note that the gb.web component is used by default. So you can use the Session 
> object, the Response object, the Request object, and so on.
>
> These Gambas server page are CGI scripts, and must be managed as any other CGI 
> script in your preferred web server.
>
> I hope I gave enough information so that you can test that quick & dirty 
> hack. :-)
>
> Regards,
>
>   

Great work.

Some functionality to add to my program!

Thanks.
Ron_2nd