php equivalent of CGI.pm

[pittendrigh]

I'm translating several old cgi scripts (that use CGI.pm)
to php. CGI.pm has a series of conventient function calls
for generating HTML code on the fly, like:
start_html(-text=>$TX, -bgcolor=>$BG,-title=>"$BBS_TI TLE") ...etc.
or
h1({align=>'cen ter'},"$forum_l abel") ...etc

Does anyone know of a php-clone package, with a matching API,
to make translating these old scripts more of search and replace
procedure?

BTW: if you're wondering "why not use the cgi script as is,"
it's because I want swap flat-file data storage to mysql,
for lots of query reasons.

[pittendrigh]

Re: php equivalent of CGI.pm

sandy@montana-riverboats.com (pittendrigh) wrote in message news:<fadd89e6. 0308170523.5077 cb17@posting.go ogle.com>...[color=blue]
> I'm translating several old cgi scripts (that use CGI.pm)
> to php. CGI.pm has a series of conventient function calls
> for generating HTML code on the fly, like:
> start_html(-text=>$TX, -bgcolor=>$BG,-title=>"$BBS_TI TLE") ...etc.
> or
> h1({align=>'cen ter'},"$forum_l abel") ...etc
>
> Does anyone know of a php-clone package, with a matching API,
> to make translating these old scripts more of search and replace
> procedure?[/color]

Well I didn't get any leads on a php/cgi.pm clone. So I hacked one together
myself. I should probably call this cgi_pm_lite_lit e.php.
Lincoln Stein's perl package is an impressive body of work. What I did
was just a quick hack to make translating scripts a little easier. But it works
for that. I got an old Bulletin Board script (that used cgi.pm)
up and running as php code in two after-work evenings.

http://montana-riverboats.com/cgi.php