Hi,

I am sorry to bother everyone but im in a bit of a muddle. I have looked everywhere (including perl monks) for the answer (and found one that i thought might work on perl monks but i couldn't make it work).

My problem is that i am making a small web library (books, Dvd's) with a flat file database for a project and i have come to a problem that has stumped me.

I need to have my script generate a dynamic form with option buttons for however many records were added (this i have done by just looping a table with sequential record Id no.s for the option button values). I then need to set these option buttons and recieve them in another form.

My question is (sorry it took so long) how do i recieve the inputs in the next script if i dont know how many different fields im going to have?

I understand (read it in perl monks and tried it) that i can read teh inputs to an array and but i could not make it work.

These inputs are all for the same field by the way. id much appreciate some help.

here is what i have so far

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

# loanType.pl
# library script to set the loan types of the records

require "cgi-lib.pl";

print &PrintHeader;
print "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Library Admin Screen</TITLE>
    <LINK REL=\"stylesheet\" TYPE=\"text/css\" HREF=\"library.css\"></
+HEAD> 
      <BODY BGCOLOR=\"#336699\">"; 

#parse form
&ReadParse(*input);

#from form
$action = $input{'action'};
$itemId = $input{'itemId'};
$firstId = $input{'first'};
$lastId = $input{'last'};

$tempIdStorer = $firstId;
for ($firstId..$lastId) {
    @loanType = $input{'$firstId'};
    $i++;
}

#####rest of my code to alter the records etc.

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id really, really appreciate any help anyone can give me

In reply to dynamic form inputs by welshy

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