Installation guide

3 Inside the MATLAB Web Server

3-10

matweb M-File

Looking again at the source from the webmagic1.html file (see “webmagic

Input” on page 2-5), observe that the line

sets argument mlmfile to the value webmagic. The mlmfile argument contains

the name of the MATLAB M-file to run.

matlabserver uses the value of mlmfile obtained from the matweb M-file,

matweb.m, (webmagic in this example) to run the MATLAB application.

webmagic takes the input data from webmagic1.html, computes the magic

square of the requested dimensions, and outputs the results using

webmagic2.html as a template.

Returning Results via the Web

The MATLAB Web Server distribution kit contains the file webmagic2.html,

which serves as an example of an HTML output document template. The

webmagic function uses the htmlrep command to place the computed values

into the

webmagic2.html output template using the code

str = htmlrep(s,'webmagic2.html');

In this example s is a MATLAB structure containing the results of the

webmagic magic squares computation. htmlrep extracts data from s and

replaces variable fields in

webmagic2.html with the results of MATLAB

computation. The completed

webmagic2.html form is transmitted to the user’s

browser.