Python Guestbook (CGI)

comment.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
    <style>
        textarea {
            width: 100%;
            height: 5em;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <form method="post" action="/sandbox/cgi-bin/mmurtaugh/save_comment.cgi">
        <textarea autofocus placeholder="COMMENT" name="text"></textarea>
        <input type="color" name="color">
        <input type="range" min="0" max="100" name="x">
        <input type="range" min="0" max="100" name="y">
        <input type="submit" name="_submit" value="send">
        <input type="submit" name="_submit" value="cancel">
    </form>
</form>
</body>
</html>

save_comment.cgi

comments.cgi

#!/usr/bin/python3

import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
import json

print ("Content-type:text/html;charset=utf-8")
print()
print ("""<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Thanks for your comment!</title>
<style>
.comment {
margin-bottom: 1em;
border-top: 1px solid black;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>


<h1>Comments</h1>
<section id="comments">
""")

# Pass 1: load all the d's (posts)
items = []
with open("/home/mmurtaugh/public_html/messages.json") as fin:
    for line in fin:
        d=json.loads(line)
        items.append(d)

# OPTIONAL... reorder
items.reverse()

# Pass 2: display them
for i, d in enumerate(items):
    # if (i+1 == len(items)): # for chronological order
    if (i == 0):
        print (f"""<div id="latest" class="comment" style="color: {d['color']}">{d['text']}</div>""")
    else:
        print (f"""<div id="msg{i}" class="comment" style="color: {d['color']}">{d['text']}</div>""")
        

print ("""
<p><a href="/sandbox/~mmurtaugh/comment.html">Add a comment</a></p>
</section>
</body>
</html>""")