RE: cgidev2 -- RPG400-L

Thank you for your answers... 

Tim

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> 
> CGIDEV2 normally uses a template file, also called externally described
> HTML, 
> for sending HTML to the browser.
> 
> The code you referenced is used in the sample program STATE when the
> program is 
> unable to read the externally described HTML.  In this case, it uses the 
> WrtNoSection subprocedure to build a message for the browser without using
> a 
> named section (portion) of any template file(s).
> 
> WrtNoSection is able to send large quantities of data by using a pointer
> to the 
> data and the data's length.  In this case, the variable 'out' is varying,
> so its 
> first two bytes are its length.  Therefore the two parameters are
> %addr(out) + 2 
> and %len(out).
> 
> WrtSection(*fini) is a special use of WrtSection that tells the service
> program 
> to write all the HTML that has been buffered to standard output.
> 
> There is no CGIDEV2 function like the one you requested.  Normally, it is
> not 
> needed because all the standard HTML is contained in the template file(s).
> 
> I recommend that you spend some time with the CGIDEV2 tutorials at IBM's
> Easy400 
> site: http://www-922.ibm.com/cgidev2o/tutorial.htm.
> 
> Also, you might want to join the Yahoo Easy400Group at 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Easy400Group/.  This group's purpose is
> thus:
> 
> "Site Easy400 (www.ibm.com/iseries/easy400) provides tools for IBM
> e-server 
> iSeries400 RPG and COBOL programmers.  Easy400 tools allow to easily
> develop web 
> sites on iSeries 400.  Easy400 tools are downloadable at no charge and
> include 
> sources."
> 
> 
> Mel Rothman, CGIDEV2 Author
> Mel Rothman, Inc.
> 
> Hatzenbeler, Tim wrote:
> > This might be a web400 question... since it's rpg, I wasn't sure...
> > 
> > I found this section, of code, if I wanted to write html straight to the
> > browser without using the substitute functions.  I was wondring if there
> was
> > a better routine?
> > 
> > c                   eval      out = 'Content-type: text/html' +
> 
> > c                             newline + newline + '<html><body><head> -
> 
> > c                             <title>State Demonstration</title></head>
> -  
> > c                             <body title="State"><h1 align="center"> -
> 
> > c                             State Demonstration -
> 
> > c                             </h1><p>Error(s) ocurred.  Programmer has
> -  
> > c                             been notified.  Please try again later. -
> 
> > c                             </p></body></html>'
> 
> > c                   callp     WrtNoSection(%addr(out)+2:
> 
> > c                             %len(out))
> 
> >
> 
> > c                   callp     WrtSection('*fini')
> 
> > 
> > I would like a routine that does a simple out &  does the *fini... ie:
> > 
> > c                   callp     wrtweb('<td>name</td>')
> > 
> > Is there a function that does this? Or would I need to write a procedure
> to
> > combine the above functions?  Also, in the previous section, why would
> they
> > offset the %addr(out) by +2 (it was like this in the sample programs??)
> > 
> > Thanks, for your time, tim
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