What kind of link where you thinking of?

• To another record
• another webpage
• ...?

Where does the info for the link come from?

• From the database
• right out of the record itself
• is it computed "on the fly"
• ...?

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

The link would go to another script. The data would come from the record itself. Basically the page loads and pulls records from a database. At the end of each record displayed, I want to have a link that people can click on. For example record 6 is a black hat and record 5 is a red hat. If someone clicks on the black hat I want to use that info not the info for the red hat, if that makes any sense.

I didn't recognise the bit of your code that fetches records from the database, so I'm going to make a whole heap of assumptions in this answer...take from it what you will:

use CGI;
my $q = CGI->new;
my %params = $q->Vars;

my %links = ("red" => "redscript",
             "black" => "blackscript");

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBD:$database:$sid","$user","$pass")
   or die "$0 connect " . DBI->errstr;
my $sql = "select detail1, detail2 detail3
           from detail_table
           where id = ?";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die "$0 prepare $sql " . $dbh->errstr
+;
$sth->execute($params{id}) or die "$0 execute $params{id} " . $dbh->er
+rstr;
print $q->header,$q->start_html,$q->start_table;
while (my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
   print $q->Tr($q->td([$row[0],
                        $row[1],
                        $q->a({-href=>"/cgi-bin/$links[$row[0]].pl?id=
+$params{id}"},
                               "link to $row[0]")
                        ]));
}
print $q->end_table,$q->end_html;
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(this code isn't tested for obvious reasons...)

rdfield

while($Data->FetchRow())
{
   %Data = $Data->DataHash();
    
   print "<tr>";
    
   foreach $key( keys( %Data )) {
      print qq{
             <td bgcolor = #9999CC>
                <a href="http://some_new_site/some_script.cgi?color=$D
+ata{'color'}">$Data{'color'}</a>
             </td>
      } ### end print qq
   }
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Thank you very much!!! The  $Data{'Color'} is what I needed.