Last week I posted a question about how to modify a script to post a string to MySQL.

CountZero kindly provided the right answer, but not to the question I *thought* I had asked about... :-| 


close (GUEST);

my $content;
open FILE, '<', $guestbookreal; # Open a filehandle FILE to $guestbook
+real 
while (<FILE>) {
   chomp; # delete any EOL character(s)
   $content .= $_; # Add the next line to the previous parts
}

$sth=$dbh->prepare($content);
$sth->execute();

$dbh->disconnect;

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In any event, I thought I would try once more - hopefully by posing - if not the "right" question this time, at least a better one...

Q: I need the above code modified to post the results of a form which produces an INSERT INTO string to MySQL. What it is doing instead is successfully retrieving and posting a lone example INSERT string that is sitting on an HTML page (not surprisingly to those who know (but surprising to me) - because that filehandle - $guestbookreal is pointing to that!) and not the INSERT strings generated by the form....anyhow.

Can somebody please show me what needs to be changed to get the code above to post the form results and not those on the HTML page?

Many thanks in advance,

-Bob

In reply to Right answer (wrong question...) by bobafifi

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