Before I being a bit of background, I am very new to
go programming language. I am running
go on Win 7, latest
go package installer for windows. I'm not good at coding but I do like some challenge of learning a new language. I wanted to start learn Erlang but found
go very interesting based on the
GO I/O videos in youtube.
I'm having problem with capturing POST form values in
GO. I spend three hours yesterday to get
go to print a POST form value in the browser and failed miserably. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, can anyone point me to the right direction? I can easily do this in another language like C#, PHP, VB, ASP, Rails etc. I have search the entire interweb and haven't found a working sample. Below is my sample code.
Here is Index.html page
{{ define "title" }}Homepage{{ end }}
{{ define "content" }}
<h1>My Homepage</h1>
<p>Hello, and welcome to my homepage!</p>
<form method="POST" action="/">
<p> Enter your name : <input type="text" name="username"> </P>
<p> <button>Go</button>
</form>
<br /><br />
{{ end }}
Here is the base page
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>{{ template "title" . }}</title>
</head>
<body>
<section id="contents">
{{ template "content" . }}
</section>
<footer id="footer">
My homepage 2012 copy
</footer>
</body>
</html>
now some
go code
package main
import (
"fmt"
"http"
"strings"
"html/template"
)
var index = template.Must(template.ParseFiles(
"templates/_base.html",
"templates/index.html",
))
func GeneralHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
index.Execute(w, nil)
if r.Method == "POST" {
a := r.FormValue("username")
fmt.Fprintf(w, "hi %s!",a); //<-- this variable does not rendered in the browser!!!
}
}
func helloHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
remPartOfURL := r.URL.Path[len("/hello/"):]
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hello %s!", remPartOfURL)
}
func main() {
http.HandleFunc("/", GeneralHandler)
http.HandleFunc("/hello/", helloHandler)
http.ListenAndServe("localhost:81", nil)
}
Thanks!
PS: Very tedious to add four space before every line of code in stackoverflow especially when you are copy pasting. Didn't find it very user friendly or is there an easier way?
