Passing Checkbox Data to CGI Program in Python

Checkboxes are used when more than one option is required to be selected.

Example

Here is example HTML code for a form with two checkboxes −

Output

The result of this code is the following form −

Below is checkbox.cgi script to handle input given by web browser for checkbox button.

#!/usr/bin/python
# Import modules for CGI handling
import cgi, cgitb
# Create instance of FieldStorage
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
# Get data from fields
if form.getvalue('maths'):
   math_flag = "ON"
else:
   math_flag = "OFF"
if form.getvalue('physics'):
   physics_flag = "ON"
else:
   physics_flag = "OFF"
print "Content-type:text/html\r\n\r\n"
print ""
print ""
print ""
print ""
print ""
print "
 CheckBox Maths is : %s
" % math_flag
print "
 CheckBox Physics is : %s
" % physics_flag
print ""
print ""