I have some data and I would like to write it into an HTML page. In PHP in would be possible just to write
<?php .... take the data and print it ?>
How can it be done with Python?
Should I generate the WHOLE page with Python or can I just extract this data and place it in the needed place in the HTML page?
This should be accessed from a web server when someone requests a URL.
If you use a framework like Flask or Django, you can use templates to render data into HTML without having to print out the entire HTML from Python (actually, it does that behind-the-scenes, but you only have to write your template once).
Flask uses a templating language called Jinja2, which lets you write templates like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>{{ title }}</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello, {{ name }}.
</body>
</html>
and render them out like this:
@app.route('/index')
def index():
title = "My Page"
name = "Foo"
return render_template('mytemplate', title=title, name=name)
Django has a similar function with its inbuilt templating system.
If you are running on a cheap webhost, you might not have the flexibility for running a full-blown web framework like Django or Flask (which have a lot of dependencies and should be run in a WSGI server). On my webhost, Siteground, I use a microframework called Bottle.py, which is similar to Flask but has only a single-file dependency so it can run wherever Python is running, using CGI. I have it set up as detailed in this post, by running it as CGI—app.run(server='cgi')—and use .htaccess rules with mod_rewrite to remove the app.py from the URL.
Documentation: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/html/
Do like this:
print("Content-type: text/html\n")
print("""<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Обработка данных форм</title>
</head>
<body>""")
print("<h1>Обработка данных форм!</h1>")
print("<p>TEXT_1: {}</p>".format(text1))
print("<p>TEXT_2: {}</p>".format(text2))
print("""</body>
</html>""")
You can push the data to mysql and fetch that using php code.
