CGI causes me some headaches..

[Darren Platt]

Try this:

form['textfield'].value

Darren.

Tim B wrote:

> I have a simple HTML form which has a text field,(textfield) a select box
> (select)
> and a submit command button (Submit).
>
> the submit button causes the following script to be run using the
> post method of the form.
>
> #! /usr/bin/python1.5
>
> import cgi
>
> print "Content-type: text/html"
> print
> print "<TITLE>CGI script output</TITLE>"
> print "<H1>This is my first CGI script</H1>"
> cgi.test()
> form = cgi.FieldStorage
> submit = form(0)
> print submit
>
> Ignoring all of the "cgi.test" output, the "print submit" line gives rise
> to:
>
> FieldStorage(None, None, [])
>
> So I tried using the GET method and got the following:
>
> FieldStorage(None, None, [MiniFieldStorage('Submit', 'Submit'),
> MiniFieldStorage('textfield', 'Ritchie Hawtin'), MiniFieldStorage('select',
> 'techno')])
>
> This is more promising as I can see the values that were originally entered
> into the form.
> I am wondering how I would go about actually extracting the values ("Ritchie
> Hawtin","techno") from the structure.
> If I try:
>
> print submit (2)
>
> I get the following error:
>
> Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/httpd/cgi-bin/RP-cgi", line 13, in ?
> print submit (2) AttributeError: no __call__ method defined
>
> Please excuse my ignorance but any assistance is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim