Hello, bigup401.

I am curious about a few things -- it looks like you might be taking your first dip into web form handling with Perl using the CGI module. Is that correct?

If so, there's a few things you might need to clarify.

As marto already indicated, you have <input>tags, but they are not inside <form>tags. I'm not terribly familiar with the inner workings of CGI, but I would interpret some of what marto says to mean that CGI might be limited to stuff in forms. I've only ever used it that way, so I wouldn't have any reason to question that.

Part of your question confuses me, though. You indicate you wish to make a decision on what to do based on whether or not a button has been clicked. Unless I'm missing something, your Perl script using CGIonly starts to run once the button has been clicked -- so I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish.

Can you bridge the gap in our understanding with a slow, patient, thorough, careful, and detailed explanation of what you've done, what you're trying to do, and which piece has you stuck?

Sorry to be so verbose, but I think your problem is conceptual, not code-related, so we need to get past that first.

In reply to Re: cgi check button by marinersk
in thread cgi check button by bigup401

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