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[% WRAPPER section
    title="SYNOPSIS"
-%]<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] USE CGI [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] CGI.param('parameter') [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] USE things = CGI [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] things.param('name') [% tt_end_tag %]
    
    # see CGI docs for other methods provided by the CGI object</pre>
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[% WRAPPER section
    title="DESCRIPTION"
-%]<p>
This is a very simple Template Toolkit Plugin interface to the CGI module.
A CGI object will be instantiated via the following directive:
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] USE CGI [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<p>
CGI methods may then be called as follows:
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] CGI.header [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] CGI.param('parameter') [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<p>
An alias can be used to provide an alternate name by which the object should
be identified.
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] USE mycgi = CGI [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] mycgi.start_form [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] mycgi.popup_menu({ Name   =&gt; 'Color'
			  Values =&gt; [ 'Green' 'Black' 'Brown' ] }) [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<p>
Parenthesised parameters to the USE directive will be passed to the plugin 
constructor:
    
    [% tt_start_tag %] USE cgiprm = CGI('uid=abw&amp;name=Andy+Wardley') [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] cgiprm.param('uid') [% tt_end_tag %]
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-%]<p>
In addition to all the methods supported by the CGI module, this
plugin defines the following.
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   title = "params()"
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This method returns a reference to a hash of all the CGI parameters.
Any parameters that have multiple values will be returned as lists.
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] USE CGI('user=abw&amp;item=foo&amp;item=bar') [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] CGI.params.user [% tt_end_tag %]            # abw
    [% tt_start_tag %] CGI.params.item.join(', ') [% tt_end_tag %] # foo, bar</pre>
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[% WRAPPER section
    title="AUTHOR"
-%]<p>
Andy Wardley &lt;abw@wardley.org&gt;
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[% ttlink('http://wardley.org/', 'http://wardley.org/') -%]
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[% WRAPPER section
    title="VERSION"
-%]<p>
2.7, distributed as part of the
Template Toolkit version 2.19, released on 27 April 2007.
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[% WRAPPER section
    title="COPYRIGHT"
-%]<pre>  Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.</pre>
<p>
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
</p>
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[% WRAPPER section
    title="SEE ALSO"
-%]<p>
[% ttlink('Template::Plugin', 'Template::Plugin') -%], [% ttlink('CGI', 'CGI') -%]
</p>
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