This answer might be a bit more advanced then what you are looking for, but if you are familiar with CGI.pm and DBI.pm, this module I wrote called CGI::SQL.pm may be useful to you. For example, if you have a bunch of fields that you want inserted into a table called 'item', you can could name all those fields with a 'item_' prefix, and then put this in the script that processes the form. It assumes there is an existing DBI database handle at $DBH. 
use CGI::SQL;

$db = new CGI::SQL($DBH,'item_');
$rv = $db->insert_from_param('item');

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That's it! &insert_from_param analysis the CGI environment, plucks out all the fields with a "item_" prefix and their associated values and stuff them into the item table, where the keys are the columns name and the values are the data. You can download my code and documentation here: http://summersault.com/software/cascade/cgi_sql/ Good luck. -mark

In reply to automated solution to create SQL from a form by markjugg
in thread saving form values to database by Anonymous Monk

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