In addition to Ovid's great (!) comments, see if you can use
an HTML template system (there recently was a question on this, search).
It helps to seperate the html from the code. I myself have used
HTML::Template, and found it very easy to use.

Put the header and footer files together into one file,
and see how to use <TMPL_VAR> and <TMPL_LOOP>
(from HTML::Template perldoc page), depending on your needs.

Also, I see in your header:

<form action='index.pl' method='get'>

Someday, try replacing index.pl with $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME},
or, if using HTML::Template, <TMPL_VAR NAME="this_script">
Then in your script replace this_script with $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME}:

$template->param(this_script => $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME});


Your script name is bound to change sometime.


-- ar0n

In reply to Re: Problem that I can't find by ar0n
in thread Problem that I can't find by zdog

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