Hi everyone, I recently started building a searchable website with perl. WIth the first script I create a subroutine that makes the forms (without frames) and I try to maintain state using the -action and -method statements. The next subroutine runs when a particular button has been pushed and creates frames, which should be filled out with 2 separate perl scripts. The problem is: when the frames are calling the perl scripts, state is not maintained. Is there any way of doing this (besides by saving and restoring state using "save(FH)" and "restore(FH)"? Here is the code:

my $CGI = new CGI();

#Create initial form
&create_form($CGI) unless param();

#Get Action parm & go to appropriate subroutine
my $action;
if ($action = param('PDB')) {
        &show_pdb($CGI) 
}
if ($action = param('RESULTS')) {
        &get_results($CGI)
}
#################subroutines
sub create_form {
        my $query = shift;
        print $query->header("text/html");
        print $query->start_html;
print $query->start_form;
print $query->p("Pick a PDB code\n");
        print $query->popup_menu(
                -NAME=>'pdb',
                -VALUES=>\@keys,
                -DEFAULT=>" ");
        print $query->submit(
                -NAME=>'PDB',
                -LABEL=>'PDB info');
        print $query->end_form;
        print $query->hr();

        print $query->start_form(-method=>'POST', -action=>"./right2.p
+l");
        print $query->p("Pick a DOCK run to see the failures\n");
        print $query->popup_menu(
                -NAME=>'results',
                -VALUES=>['DOCK4_FLEX_500', 'DOCK4_FLEX_5000', 'DOCK4_
+FLEX_50000']);
        print $query->submit(
                -NAME=>'RESULTS',
                -LABEL=>'Get results'); 
        print $query->endform;
        print $query->hr();
        print $query->end_html;
}

sub get_results {
        my $query = shift;
        print $query->header();
        print $query->frameset({-cols=>'25%, 75%'}, 
                frame({-name=>'left', -src=>"./left.pl", -method=>'POS
+T'}),
                frame({-name=>'right', -src=>"./right2.pl", -action=>"
+./right2.pl", -method=>'POST'})
        );      
}
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