CGI.lua - A native CGI Interface

[Regular Joe <237482@...>]

Hello users of lua-l,

Since this is my first time on this Mailinglist, I thought I might as well start with an introduction

to a project I have been working on since the past weeks.

In short, it consists of a pure Lua CGI Implementation, that also supports RHTML-alike templates as used by the

CGILua project in Keplerproject.

HOWEVER CGI.Lua is not related to CGILua - But let me explain: 

 + It appears that CGILua is more like a wsgi module for Lua, and not so much like a bareboned CGI Interface

 + The usage of CGILua is fairly non-trivial - or so it seems (just dumping my personal experience here)

 + Installation also seems a little quirky

So instead of attempting to fix a project whose API I simply couldn't quite peep through, I have decided to

sit down a minute and crank together an entirely new API.

The usage is as simple as the following:

    CGI = require("CGI")

    cgi = CGI()

    cgi:sendHeader(200, "Content-Type", "text/html")

    cgi:write("Hello World")

Or with Templates:

    index.cgi:

        CGI = require("CGI")

        env = {}

        env.words = {"Hello", "World"}

        cgi = CGI()

        cgi:sendHeader(200, "Content-Type", "text/html")

        cgi:include("mainpage.lsp", env)

    mainpage.lsp:

        <p>

            <% for _, word in pairs(words) do %>

                <i><%= word %></i>&nbsp;

            <% end %>

        </p>

The template engine is in fact copied from the Kepler Project, mainly because it works too well to rewrite it (many thanks to the Kepler Project at this point!) ;-)

The website for CGI.lua is hosted at sourceforge: http://cgilua.sourceforge.net/index.cgi

Also, the website of CGI.lua is a fullfledged Wiki Clone I have written using CGI.lua (and luamars from Mars for Operating System stuff, another project of mine: http://github.com/nebukadnezzar/Mars).

The wiki engine isn't opensource yet, because i'm no webdesigner, and i'd rather like to hear some opinions first... :-)

CGI.lua is naturally licensed under the same license as Lua, the famous MIT/X11 License, fair trade as it should be. :-)

I look forward to opinions and criticism!

PS: This is my first time on any mailinglist actually, and I apologize if I did something incredibly silly while posting this.