There are standard initialization things that you will want to do when using this library. The following template should give you some idea of how to properly use this library.
/* template using cgihtml.a library */ #include <stdio.h> /* standard io functions */ #include <signal.h> /* this and unistd.h for signal trapping */ #include <unistd.h> #include "cgi-lib.h" /* CGI-related routines */ #include "html-lib.h" /* HTML-related routines */ int main() { llist entries; /* define a linked list; this is where the entries */ /* are stored. */ read_cgi_input(&entries); /* parse the form data and add it to the list */ /* The data is now in a very usable form. To search the list entries by name, call the function: cgi_val(entries, "nameofentry") which returns a pointer to the value associated with "nameofentry". */ html_header(); /* print HTML MIME header */ html_begin("Output"); /* send appropriate HTML headers with title */ /*Output */ /* display whatever data you wish, probably with printf() */ html_end(); /* send appropriate HTML end footers (