justinzollar has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have an HTML/Perl form that allows a user to input data. The form where users input the data is called ManagementEnhancement.pl, and the form receiving the data is called ManagementEnhancementUpdate.pl. ManagementEnhancement.pl has POST. ManagementEnhancementUpdate.pl is where I am having an issue. On ManagementEnhancement.pl there is a text box called "txtName" and a person will enter in a name. On ManagementEnhancementUpdate.pl, I need a varaible to accept the value entered, and set it as the variable "$Name". Can someone please help me figure out what I need on the ManagementEnhancementUpdate.pl page in order to accept the data? Here are my use statements at the top of ManagementEnhancementUpdate.pl

use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser'; use warnings; use Net::SMTP; use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST); use LWP::UserAgent;
right now, I'm using "get" and have this to extract the data out of the URL and assign it to variables.
for $parm (@PARM) { chomp ($parm); $parm =~ s/[+]/ /g; $parm =~ s/%([0-9a-fA-F]{2})/pack ('c', hex ($1))/eg; if ($parm =~ /^[a-z0-9]+ *=/i) { ($parmname, $parmvalue) = split (/ *= */, $parm, 2); if ($parmname eq 'txtRequester') { $Reviewer = $parmvalue; } elsif ($parmname eq 'person') { $Person = $parmvalue; } elsif ($parmname eq 'team') { $Team = $parmvalue; } else { $TIME{$parmname} = $parmvalue; } } }

any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

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Re: perl POST question in HTML
by NetWallah (Canon) on Sep 19, 2014 at 23:24 UTC
    If you use CGI , parameters can be retrieved using the param() call regardless of whether it was POSTed or GET-ed.

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