Question

I’m new to perl and I’ve mainly worked with php in the past,

usually to check if a get variable is equal to something and then do something else if it is, i’d simply do

if ($_GET['page'] == 'news') { 
echo 'yessss';
}

but I’m not really sure what to do with perl :$ could anyone help me out? 🙂

Thanks!

Answer 1

In Perl, the module of CGI exists,
http://perldoc.perl.org/CGI.html#SYNOPSIS
and ->param gets an input parameter.

use CGI;
my $q = CGI->new;
print $q->header();
if ($q->param('page') eq 'news') {
  print "...";
}