Yes. It is. Just DWYM and it will work. HERE docs work fine, intermingled with output from CGI.pm.

Just be sure that the field names you use in your HERE doc are the same ones you look for via $q->param('...'). There is no difference between the output of the "CGI.pm HTML shortcuts" and the output of printing a HERE doc.

The strongest case for using the CGI.pm HTML shortcuts is that it adds some degree of compiletime syntax checking to your HTML. But frankly, I often find them awkward, and often find myself using CGI.pm only for it's input parameter handling, handling uploads, and for the header() method. YMMV.


Dave

In reply to Re: HTML forms by davido
in thread HTML forms by Anonymous Monk

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