Good Evening Monks!

I'm writing a simple To-Do application in a way to learn Perl. The database table consists of three fields: time, status, and content.

I want to be able to see my items and to update a particular item at the same time. I am having trouble with the update portion of the script.

You can view the code in my scratchpad.

The script initially calls for subroutine show_item() which shows the item information. This subroutine shows two different methods of updating the item.

The first: submit (-name => "choice", -value => "Update") - applies the update to all the items, doesn't post to the database table and when you refresh the page the original information prior to the update appears. The update never occurred.

The second: " [", a ({-href => update_url}, "Update"), "]", doesn't apply the update and removes any information associated with that item except for the time. The update never occurred.

Here are the areas of the script that has update coded:

elsif ($choice eq "update")
sub update_item
sub show_item
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Any guidance or advice you can give will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.