Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-07-16 Severity: wishlist * Package name : libcgi-validate-perl Version : 2.000 Upstream Author : Byron Brummer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/ZENIN/ * License : GPL/Artistic Description : Advanced CGI form parser and type validation Basicly a blending of the CGI and Getopt::Long modules, and requires the CGI module to function. . The basic concept of this module is to combine the best features of the CGI and Getopt::Long modules. The CGI module is great for parsing, building, and rebuilding forms, however it lacks any real error checking abilitys such as misspelled form input names, the data types received from them, missing values, etc. This however, is something that the Getopt::Long module is vary good at doing. So, basicly this module is a layer that collects the data using the CGI module and passes it to routines to do type validation and name consistency checks all in one clean try/catch style block. . The syntax of GetFormData() is mostly the same as the GetOptions() of Getopt::Long, with a few exceptions (namely, the handling of exceptions) . See the VALUE TYPES section for detail of the available types, and the EXCEPTIONS section for exception handling options. If given without a type, fields are assumed to be type ":s" (optional string), which is normally correct.
This module is needed by the upcoming limacute 2.0 packages by Tore Anderson. Preliminary packages can be found at http://www.ping.uio.no/~ilmari/debian/ -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux galadriel 2.4.19-rc1 #1 Sun Jun 30 04:25:42 CEST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=no_NO.ISO-8859-1 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
