A Look at CGI.pm

• My personal favorite, but that is just me.
• Treat it just like a JavaScript object.  Its methods make Perl scripting much easier.
• To start, enter these on the top of your Perl script, after the shebang line but before you start writing HTML:

# include the CGI.pm library
use CGI;

#   Create a CGI object.
$query = new CGI;
 
• And, you are ready to go.
• To get the value entered from a form, using CGI.pm,

$query->param('firstname');
(Use it like this to print it out once, or assign it to a variable for quicker access.)