You'll want to take a look at the various template modules, HTML::Template, HTML::Mason, or Template Toolkit 2, to name the more popular ones.

In nearly all cases, all you need to do is use normal CGI programming, then load up a hash with values that you got from your mysql database; this hash is then passed to the template module, which fills in the template form, and either prints it to STDOUT or returns it as a string after which you can print it out to whereever. For example, with TT2, you could call your template as such: 

print $tt2obj->process( 'mytemplate.html',
    { title => 'Matrix',
      image => 'matrix_cover.jpg',
      desc  => 'This is a cool movie with CGI effects' } );

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and then in 'mytemplate.html', you'd have placeholders as such: 
<H2>[% title %]</H2>
<IMG SRC="[% image %]" alt="[% title %]">
<P>
[% desc %]
</P>

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The various template solutions allow for much more control of the output and allow for looping and if-then constructs as well.

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In reply to Re: Movie-database (mysql) with browser interface by Masem
in thread Movie-database (mysql) with browser interface by khippy

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