Hey everyone

I have been working on a small CGI script lately, and things have been going well. However, I have come up against a sort of problem.

My main goal so far of this "project" is to simply: Retrieve data from MySQL via the DBI module -> display this data in HTML form -> make a form for someone to input a row in the MySQL DB -> display contents of DB again in HTML form.

So far, everything but one of those parts of the project so far are completed. The part I don't know how to do yet is the form part. I am using HTML::Template for all of the HTML part, and am not sure how I can use a form with this (since I don't want to mirror too many cases or loops in the template that could have been done in the acutal .pl/.cgi program.

I did take a long look at this node: Q / A and HTML::Template techniques... and got some ideas as to how to do this *kind of*. But I don't know quite where to go with the code I have come up with which is displayed here:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use HTML::Template;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

my $cgi = new CGI;
print $cgi->header;
my $template = new HTML::Template(filename => "1.tmpl", die_on_bad_par
+ams => 0);
$template->param(
                 BOX =>
                 $cgi->popup_menu(-name=>'color',
                          -values=>['red','green','blue','chartreuse']
+),
                 BOX2 =>
                 $cgi->textfield('name'),
                 );

print $template->output();

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Also here is the .tmpl file: 
<html>
<title>test</title>
<body>
<form>
  <table border=1 >
  <tr>
  <td>
  Color1: <TMPL_VAR NAME="BOX">
  <br></td>
  <td>
  What is your name?: <TMPL_VAR NAME="BOX2">
  <br>
  </td>
  <td>
  <input type=submit>
  </td>
  </table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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Hopefully my question(s) are clear enough to answer, or at least to point to where I can find out how to do it in a correct manner. Thanks for any and all help or comments regarding this question!

Andy Summers

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