cgiGetValue(3)

cgiGetValue3

Return the value of a cgi variable

Synopsys

#include <cgi.h>

char *cgiGetValue (s_cgi *parms, const char *name);

Overview

This routine returns a pointer to the value of a cgi variable. Encoded characters (%nn) are already decoded. One must not free the pointer.

If multiple fields are used (i.e. a variable that may contain several values) the value returned contains all these values concatenated together with a newline character as separator.

Memory allocated by the returned value is automatically freed by the final call to cgiFree(3).

Return value

On success a pointer to a string is returned. If the variable wasn't transmitted through CGI or was empty NULL is returned.

Releases

13 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 2.0–2.1
  2. 2.2–4.0
  3. 5.0–11

Author

This CGI library is written by Martin Schulze <[email protected]>. If you have additions or improvements please get in touch with him.

From cgilib 0.6-1.1+b1 in Debian 11 (Bullseye). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.