Hello Monks!

Back again with another problem I'm stuck on.. I couldn't find my answer or know how to narrow down my search on google to find my answer so I'm asking here again.

So I've had some help with using ajax in a .cgi code which was what I needed. But the original code was an <input> type and I wanted it to be a drop down list.

The problem is that I do not know how to squeeze the commented out for into the html where the dropdown list would be.

Here's the code

my $cgi = new CGI;
my $pjx = new CGI::Ajax( 'exported_func' => \&perl_func );

my $dirname = '';
opendir my($dh), $dirname or die "Couldn't open dir'$dirname':$!";
my @files = readdir $dh;
my $files;
closedir $dh;
#for my $i ( 2 .. $#files ) {
#       print "<option value=\"$files[$i]\">$files[$i]</option>\n";
#       };
sub perl_func {
        my $input = shift;
        my $output = $input . "was the input!";
        return ($output);
}

print $pjx->build_html( $cgi, \&Show_HTML);

sub Show_HTML {
        my $html = <<__EOI__;
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
        <head>
                <script type="text/javascript" src="\jquery.js"></scri
+pt>
                <script type="text/javascript" src="script.js"></scrip
+t>
                <script type="text/javascript" src="stats.js"></script
+>
                <title> Graph </title>
        </head>
        <body>
                <form action=''>
                        <select name="users" id="users" onChange="expo
+rted_func( ['users'], ['files'] );">
                        </select>
                </form>
                <div id="files"></div>
        </body>
</html>
__EOI__
return $html;

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Thanks in advance!

In reply to HTML/CGI for loop problem by Jabox

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