CGI::URI2param - convert parts of an URL to param values DESCRIPTION CGI::URI2param takes a request object (as supplied by CGI.pm or Apache::Request) and a hashref of keywords mapped to regular expressions. It applies all of the regexes to the current URI and adds everything that matched to the 'param' list of the request object. Why? With CGI::URI2param you can instead of: http://somehost.org/db?id=1234&style=fancy present a nicerlooking URL like this: http://somehost.org/db/style_fancy/id1234.html To achieve this, simply do: CGI::URI2param::uri2param($r,{ style => 'style_(\w+)', id => 'id(\d+)\.html' }); Now you can access the values like this: my $id=$r->param('id'); my $style=$r->param('style'); If you are using mod_perl, please take a look at Apache::URI2param. It provides an Apache PerlInitHandler to make running CGI::URI2param easier for you. Apache::URI2param is distributed along with CGI::URI2param. INSTALLATION the standard way: perl Makefile.pl make make test make install AUTHOR Thomas Klausner, domm@zsi.at COPYRIGHT CGI::URI2param is Copyright (c) 2001,2002 Thomas Klausner, ZSI. All rights reserved. You may use and distribute this module according to the same terms that Perl is distributed under