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C20.0046: Database Management SystemsLecture #20
M.P. Johnson
Stern School of Business, NYU
Spring, 2005
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Homework Project part 4 due Thursday
Topic: populating your tables with data Using MySQL’s bulk loader Start early! Turn in on time
Project part 5 Topic: web interface + any remaining loose ends Assigned after Thursday Due: end of semester
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Agenda: Programming for SQL Have now been exposed to:
Embedded SQL: Pro*C Java JDBC Stored Procedures: PL/SQL
All used; good to know about
Most important for this course: DB-conn from web scripting languages DBI/DBDs in Perl, PHP
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Goals: after this week Understand dynamic webpages
1. CGI2. PHP-like scripting
Today: be able to post a hello-web Perl program in your sales account
This week: Be able to write simple dynamic webpages in
1. In Perl2. In PHP
that1. That do look-ups with user-entered parameters2. And display the results3. Based on examples from class
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New topic: web apps Goal: web front-end to database
Present dynamic content, on demand Not canned (static) pages/not canned queries (perhaps) modify DB on demand
Naïve soln: static webpage & HTTP index.html written, stored, put on server, displayed
when it’s url is requested HTTP is stateless (so?) This doesn’t solve our problem
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Dynamic webpages Soln 1: upon url request
1. somehow decide to dynamically generate an html page (from scratch)
2. send back new html page to user
No html file exists on server, just created on demand
CGI/Perl, Java servlets, etc.
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New topic: CGI First, and still very popular method CGI: Common Gateway Interface
Not a programming language! Just an interface (connection) between the
webserver and an outside program “Webserver” = webserver software, e.g., Apache
Very simple basic idea:1. user chooses an url
22 webserver runs that url’s program,
3. sends back the program’s output
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On-the-fly content with CGI
ProgramClient
Server
HTTP Request
Data for program
Generated HTML
HTML
Image from http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/cp3024/
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Using CGI CGI works with any prog./scripting lang.
Really?
Well, no, not really…
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CGI works… if the webserver machine can run program
pages/soho, not sales and if the user the webserver is running as
(e.g. nobody) can can run your program and if the necessary jars/libraries are
available and if nobody has permission to use them and if the necessary DB software is installed
Plausible choices: Perl, Python, C, sh
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CGI admin Most webservers: CGI program/script must
either1. End in .cgi and/or
2. Reside in cgi-bin Ours: needs .cgi extension If an actual program, the cgi file is just the
name of the executable:
gcc -o myprog.cgi myproc.gccgcc -o myprog.cgi myproc.gcc
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CGI admin In a script, first (“shebang”) line says which
interpreter to use:
Either way, cgi file must be executable:
Make sure your cgi file runs at cmd prompt:
But not a guarantee!
#!/usr/local/bin/perl#!/usr/local/bin/perl
sales% chmod +x *.cgisales% chmod +x *.cgi
sales% ./myprog.cgisales% ./myprog.cgi
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CGI input CGI programs must respond to input Two mechanisms:
GET: read env. var. QUERY_STRING POST: get length from env. var.
CONTENT_LENGTH; read from STDIN This diff. mostly invis. to Perl, PHP Both send a sequence of name/value pairs,
separated by &s:
name=a&submit=Searchname=a&submit=Search
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CGI input Appearance/security differences GET: string is part of the URL, following a ?:
POST: string can be read by program from an environmental variable Vars not visible to the browser user Not automatically put in server log, etc.
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/lookup.cgi
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/lookup.cgi
http://google.comhttp://google.com
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Our use of CGI We’ll discuss CGI and Perl
One option for your project Can try C, C++, etc. But not recommended!
For CGI, only Perl will be “supported” Scripting languages v. programming languages Development v. IT Other languages are still not recommended
especially if you don’t know Perl and PHP
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New topic: Just Enough Perl Very popular, powerful scripting language Very good at “regular expressions”, text manipulation,
but not very relevant to us
Instead: simple text/html production Basic language constructs MySQL connectivity
Perl = Practical Extraction and Report Language= Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
perl -pi -e 's/tcsh/sh/' $HOME/.loginperl -pi -e 's/tcsh/sh/' $HOME/.login
See http://perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2003-February/001047.html
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hello.pl Hello, World - hello.pl
Running at command prompt:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "Hello World\n";
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "Hello World\n";
sales% perl hello.plHello Worldsales%
sales% perl hello.plHello Worldsales%
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Hello, World - hello.pl Run from browser:
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/hello.pl
What’s wrong? http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/hello.cgi
What’s wrong? http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/hello2.cgi
What’s wrong?
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Troubleshooting hello.cgi
1. Get the extension right:
2. Try running with perl: Are there Perl errors?
3. Try running as program: Are the execute permissions on?
sales% perl hello.cgisales% perl hello.cgi
sales% ./hello.cgisales% chmod +x hello.cgi
sales% ./hello.cgisales% chmod +x hello.cgi
sales% cp hello.pl hello.cgisales% cp hello.pl hello.cgi
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Troubleshooting hello.cgi
5. Make sure you’re printing the HTML header
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello World\n";
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello World\n";
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Troubleshooting hello.cgi5. Show errors and warnings:
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/hello3.cgi Is case-sensitive
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI qw(:standard);use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser
warningsToBrowser );
print header();pr int "Hello World\n";
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI qw(:standard);use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser
warningsToBrowser );
print header();pr int "Hello World\n";
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Perl and HTML headers Data sent to a browser is prefaced with a
header describe type of data:
Hand-generated html must print this before anything else:
Or: When use-ing CGI
Content-type: text/html\n\nContent-type: text/html\n\n
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print CGI::header();print CGI::header();
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Perl, HTML, and CGI.pm CGI.pm offers a “front-end” to HTML
Replaces mark-up language with an API
Very simple example: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/
cgipm.pl http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/
cgipm.cgi
Somewhat simpler, but another thing to learn Mostly won’t cover
Review: Hello, World
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More on Perl Perl is mostly “C-like” Perl is case-sensitive Use # for rest-of-line comments Creation of functions is supported but optional
Like PL/SQL Perl has “modules”/“packages” CGI module:
Provides header() function, easy access to CGI params Mysql module:
use CGI qw(:standard);use CGI qw(:standard);
use Mysql;use Mysql;
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Perl and strings Can use “ ” for strings Concatenate with . op:
Print text with print function:
Or, parentheses can be dropped!
“Hi ” . “there\n”“Hi ” . “there\n”
print (“Hi there”);print (“Hi there”);
print “Hi there”;print “Hi there”;
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Perl and strings Can compare numbers (as numbers) with
usual operators < > <=, etc. 3 < 5
These do not apply to strings String ops are based on initials of operations:
eq, ne, lt, gt, le, ge “hi” ne “there” “hi” le “hi there”
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Perl and variables All regular variables begin with $
$input, $query Declare vars with my:
Q: What about var types? A: Perl is loosely typed!
my $s = "hi";my $query = "select …";
my $s = "hi";my $query = "select …";
my $s = "hi";$s = 10;$s = 3.5;
my $s = "hi";$s = 10;$s = 3.5;
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Perl, strings, and variables print takes var-many arguments:
Variables are always “escaped”
Vars may appear within strings:
Prints out: Hello Dolly. To prevent escaping, use single quotes '$name‘
$name = "Dolly";$name = "Dolly";
print ("Hello $name.\n");print ("Hello $name.\n");
print ("Hello ", "Dolly", ".\n");print ("Hello ", "Dolly", ".\n");
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Perl syntax examples Access member/field of object ::
object::member Access member pointed to by object ->
rowhash->field Can access array members with indices Can access hash members with strings
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/controls.cgi http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/controlscgi.txt
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Tutorials on Perl Some material drawn from the following good tutorials: http://perl.com
CGI backend programming using perl: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/sst/perl/
Perl Basics: http://www.cs.wcupa.edu/~rkline/Perl/perl-basics-1.html
CGI Basics: http://www.cs.wcupa.edu/~rkline/Perl/cgi-basics-1.html
MySQL/Perl/CGI example: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/sst/perl/ex3d.html
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Tutorials on PHP Some material drawn from the following good tutorials: http://php.net
PHP introduction and examples: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/sst/php/
Interactive PHP with database access: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/sst/php/gazdb.html
Longer PHP/MySQL Tutorial from webmonkey: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/21/index2a.html
Nice insert/update/delete example from webmonkey: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/21/index3a.html
MySQL/Perl/PHP page from U-Wash: http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/publishing/mysql-script.html
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For next time…
1. Go through at least one tutorial each on Perl and PHP
2. Try posting a hello-web Perl script in your sales account
3. Run/read these:
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/controls.cgi http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/controlscgi.txt
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/lookup.cgi http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mjohnson/dbms/perl/lookupcgi.txt