after seeing your code, I suspect the problem is as follows: you can see the data you posted in the preview, but when you click on 'Publish new event', all the data is lost.

if this is your problem, then it has nothing to do with variables, nor with Perl at all, but with a misunderstanding of how CGI works. you simply didn't pass anything from the form in the preview() sub (only action=add_data is there), so when your script executes again it obviously has no data.

if you don't post all the data (eg. month, date, year, title, message, etc.) again in hidden fields inside the preview() sub , you will have them empty on the second run.

hope this helps.

cheers,
Aldo

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