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EiffelWeb: Web form processing

Eiffel Power (TM) from ISE

Welcome to the on-line EiffelWeb manual.

Contents


1. THE ROLE OF EIFFELWEB
Why use EiffelWeb?
Organization of this document
Classes
2. WRITING A FORM-PROCESSING SYSTEM
Writing a basic script
A complete example
3. HOW DO FORMS GET PROCESSED?
4. ACCESSING VISITOR INFORMATION AND ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Visitor information
Accessing environment variables
5. USING THE DEBUGGING FACILITIES
Using make_debug as a creation procedure
Environment variables
Error handling
An example using make_debug
6. GENERATING HTML OUTPUT
APPENDIX A: Class CGI_INTERFACE
APPENDIX B: Class CGI_ENVIRONMENT
APPENDIX C: Class HTML_GENERATOR
APPENDIX D: Class HTML_CONSTANTS