FIT5900 : Ex. 6, Perl CGI Script

A sample database file containing student names, ID numbers and marks is provided.

• Produce an interface which allows access via CGI to the provided marks and the student's name when given the student ID# (details below).
  
  
• Your interface will need to have a text entry box for the user to type in the ID of the student whose marks are being retrieved.
  
  
• The interface ought to check (using JavaScript) that a reasonable entry has been made before it sends the entered number to the CGI script (i.e. it needs to be a numerical value of 8 digits).
  
  
• The CGI script will take the entry and check to see that it's a valid ID.
  
  
• It will print an appropriate and informative error message if the ID is not in the database.
  
  
• It will print the student's:
  
  
  • name
  • ID number
  • mark out of forty
  • mark as an integer-valued percentage (no floating point values)
    
    ... in a neat table on a synthesized HTML document if the ID is in the database.
    
    
• Solve these problems by building:
  
  
  • an online form
  • a CGI script in Perl which synthesizes the HTML document or error message dynamically

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