AppConfig::CGI(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation AppConfig::CGI(3)

# [NAME](#NAME)

AppConfig::CGI - Perl5 module for processing CGI script parameters.

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

```
    use AppConfig::CGI;
    my $state = AppConfig::State->new(\%cfg);
    my $cgi   = AppConfig::CGI->new($state);
    $cgi->parse($cgi_query);
    $cgi->parse();               # looks for CGI query in environment
```

# [OVERVIEW](#OVERVIEW)

AppConfig::CGI is a Perl5 module which implements a CGI interface to AppConfig. It examines the QUERY\_STRING environment variable, or a string passed explicitly by parameter, which represents the additional parameters passed to a CGI query. This is then used to update variable values in an AppConfig::State object accordingly.

AppConfig::CGI is distributed as part of the AppConfig bundle.

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

## [USING THE AppConfig::CGI MODULE](#USING_THE_AppConfig::CGI_MODULE)

To import and use the AppConfig::CGI module the following line should appear in your Perl script:

```
    use AppConfig::CGI;
```

AppConfig::CGI is used automatically if you use the AppConfig module and create an AppConfig::CGI object through the **cgi()** method. AppConfig::CGI is implemented using object-oriented methods. A new AppConfig::CGI object is created and initialised using the **new()** method. This returns a reference to a new AppConfig::CGI object. A reference to an AppConfig::State object should be passed in as the first parameter:

```
    my $state = AppConfig::State->new(); 
    my $cgi   = AppConfig::CGI->new($state);
```

This will create and return a reference to a new AppConfig::CGI object.

## [PARSING CGI QUERIES](#PARSING_CGI_QUERIES)

The parse() method is used to parse a CGI query which can be specified explicitly, or is automatically extracted from the "QUERY\_STRING" CGI environment variable. This currently limits the module to only supporting the GET method.

See AppConfig for information about using the AppConfig::CGI module via the **cgi()** method.

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

Andy Wardley, "<abw@wardley.org<gt">

# [COPYRIGHT](#COPYRIGHT)

Copyright (C) 1997-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.

Copyright (C) 1997,1998 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

AppConfig, AppConfig::State

2026-10-26 perl v5.44.0

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Document: AppConfig::CGI(3pm) from perl-appconfig 1.71-r6 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/N/NE/NEILB/AppConfig-1.71.tar.gz