Python Programming/CGI interface
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) allows to execute some Python programs on an HTTP server.
Installation
[edit | edit source]By default, open a .py file in HTTP returns its content. In order to make the server compile and execute the source code, it must be placed in a directory including an .htaccess file, with the lines[1]:
AddHandler cgi-script .py Options +ExecCGI
Attention: on the Unix-like servers the files aren't executable by default, so this must be set with the command: chmod +x *.py.
Examples
[edit | edit source]The module cgitb is used for debugging:
#!C:\Program Files (x86)\Python\python.exe
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
print "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n"
print "<html><head><title>Local directory</title></head><body>"
import cgitb
cgitb.enable()
import os
print "The CGI file is located into:"
print os.path.dirname(__file__)
print "</body></html>"
The usage of a form needs an import cgi[2].
For a MySQL database, its import MySQLdb[3].
The following file is called CGI_MySQL.py, and uses the both modules:
#!C:\Program Files (x86)\Python\python.exe
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
print "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n"
print "<html><head><title>DB CGI</title></head><body>"
print "<h1>MySQL extraction</h1>"
print "<ul>"
import cgitb
cgitb.enable()
import cgi, MySQLdb
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
if form.getvalue('name') == None:
print "<h2>Research a name</h2>"
print '''
<form action="CGI_MySQL.py" method="post">
<input type="text" name="name" />
<input type="submit"></form>
'''
else:
print "<h2>Result</h2>"
print "List for " + form.getvalue('name') + " :"
connection = MySQLdb.connect(user='login1', passwd='passwd1', db='base1')
cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.execute("SELECT page_title FROM page WHERE name ='"+form.getvalue('name')+"'")
for row in cursor.fetchall():
print "<li>%s</li>" % row[0]
connection.close()
print "</ul>"
print "</body></html>"