PPWIZARD is a free preprocessor for HTML, REXX, Visual Basic or any text files.

Switch /CGI:LogFile

This is a PPWIZARD command line switch. You can set up your own default switches in the "PPWIZARD_OPTIONS" environment variable or in project files.

This command changes the way PPWIZARD works to allow it to be used as a web server based CGI program (or part of a bigger CGI process).

The output goes to stdout and what would normally go to stdout is prevented from going there.

If the optional "LogFile" is not specified then all status, debug and error output is dropped. If you need to see this you would specify the name of a file. If the filename includes "?" then a "random" 8.3 filename (no path) is chosen and replaces the "?".

If the ppwizard output is not part of a larger process then you may want to make use of the "<?CgiStart>" variable.

Being a CGI script (or part of one) you would want your code to be as fast as possible, I highly recommend you read the "performance" documentation.

CGI OPTIONS

You may /define, #define or #evaluate the following variables to control the output which occurs in the case of a fatal error (the default is to display the information):

• CGI_FATAL_MY_MESSAGE_ONLY
  Define this variable if you don't want any details of the message to be displayed in the HTML output. Leave this variable empty so as not to indicate an error (other than truncated output!) or supply the HTML codes and text you wish displayed.

• CGI_FATAL_HEADER
  This variable controls the HTML codes that are sent to stdout before the lines that contain the details of the error. It is recommended that these codes include "<PRE>" or similar to retain the line formatting on error lines.

• CGI_FATAL_TRAILER
  This variable controls the HTML codes that are sent to stdout after the lines that contain the details of the error. The codes will usually reverse those you specified for use before the error details.

Example

The following examples show the options being specified on the command line, it is probably better to have any common options specified in CONFIG.SYS on the web server.

    ppwizard EmailForm.TEM /CrLf /CGI
    ppwizard EmailForm.TEM /CrLf /CGI:LOGS\LAST.LOG
    ppwizard EmailForm.TEM /CrLf /CGI:LOGS\?
    

PPWIZARD Manual

Thursday January 17 2002 at 6:27pm