Thanks. Yeah I already made changes similar to the ones you suggested-I have modified the design now and have multiple checkboxes and a single Update button.


The changes I made:

-I am now using CGI to retrieve "arrays of values"
-The form now has an update column with check boxes and a single update button for all rows.
-The value of update check box is set to TicketNo, which is my primary autonumber key so the value tells me which records need to be updated:
In the template: 
......
<td>
<input type="checkbox" name="Update" value="<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME=TicketN
+o -->"></td>
<td>
    <!-- TMPL_VAR NAME=TicketNo --></td>
<td>
  <!-- TMPL_VAR NAME=Customer --></td>
<td>
    <!-- TMPL_VAR NAME=UserName --></td>
....
<td>
    <input type="text" value = "<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME=AssignTo -->" name=
+"Detail" size="11"></td>
.....

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So the template will display records returned from the DB-the user can modify the fields displayed in a text box. (mulitple modifiable fields per record)
In the script: 
.....
@update = $query->param('Update'); 
@detail = $query->param('Detail'); 
...........
print "@update\n"; #Returns the ticket numbers for records that need t
+o be updated
print "@detail\n";#Returns details for ALL displayed records

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Sample output is:
@update prints 40001 40003 40006 40007
@detail prints detail1 detail2 detail3 detail4 detail5 detail6 detail7

The question now:
Given two arrays of different lengths, I cannot use the same array index to access corresponding elements from the two arrays.

So how do I associate the right elements (40003 with detail3 and not detail 2)?

In reply to Re: Re: Logical question-to upate DB records by thisisperl
in thread Logical question-to upate DB records by thisisperl

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