Dread Monks,
I am contemplating laziness today and wish advice on this sketch of a program for updating a db table via DBI regardless of how many or few fields are supplied by the cgi form. Here is the idea:
  1. All db fields and form inputs for db fields are prefaced with id characters like so: db_foo
  2. Script parses input and creates @column_names containing the db fields this form is supplying
  3. The question marks for inserts can be done like so: my @question_marks = ('?') x @column_names;  #Thx [Zaxo]
  4. And the $sth->execute() can contain an @ of the values of the keys from %form_data which begin with db_
What do folks think? I am still contemplating how best to structure the UPDATE queries as the above strategy would work better for a straight INSERT than an UPDATE, I think.

Opinions requested and appreciated!
TIA
jg
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In reply to Flexible Database Updates by jerrygarciuh

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