package WidgetView; use base 'CGI::Application'; use strict; # Needed for our database connection use DBI; sub setup { my $self = shift; $self->start_mode('mode1'); $self->run_modes( 'mode1' => 'showform', 'mode2' => 'showlist', 'mode3' => 'showdetail' ); # Connect to DBI database $self->param('mydbh' => DBI->connect()); } sub teardown { my $self = shift; # Disconnect when we're done $self->param('mydbh')->disconnect(); } sub showform { my $self = shift; # Get CGI query object my $q = $self->query(); my $output = ''; $output .= $q->start_html(-title => 'Widget Search Form'); $output .= $q->start_form(); $output .= $q->textfield(-name => 'widgetcode'); $output .= $q->hidden(-name => 'rm', -value => 'mode2'); $output .= $q->submit(); $output .= $q->end_form(); $output .= $q->end_html(); return $output; } sub showlist { my $self = shift; # Get our database connection my $dbh = $self->param('mydbh'); # Get CGI query object my $q = $self->query(); my $widgetcode = $q->param("widgetcode"); my $output = ''; $output .= $q->start_html(-title => 'List of Matching Widgets'); ## Do a bunch of stuff to select "widgets" from a DBI-connected ## database which match the user-supplied value of "widgetcode" ## which has been supplied from the previous HTML form via a ## CGI.pm query object. ## ## Each row will contain a link to a "Widget Detail" which ## provides an anchor tag, as follows: ## ## "widgetview.cgi?rm=mode3&widgetid=XXX" ## ## ...Where "XXX" is a unique value referencing the ID of ## the particular "widget" upon which the user has clicked. $output .= $q->end_html(); return $output; } sub showdetail { my $self = shift; # Get our database connection my $dbh = $self->param('mydbh'); # Get CGI query object my $q = $self->query(); my $widgetid = $q->param("widgetid"); my $output = ''; $output .= $q->start_html(-title => 'Widget Detail'); ## Do a bunch of things to select all the properties of ## the particular "widget" upon which the user has ## clicked. The key id value of this widget is provided ## via the "widgetid" property, accessed via the CGI.pm ## query object. $output .= $q->end_html(); return $output; }