Hello Monks,

I am new to perl, and I have been taking pieces and parts from other scripts I have found in an effort to try and get comfortable with perl. I am trying to query a database and display the information that I get on a webpage using HTML::Template.

Here is what I am using to get the data:

my $sth = $dbh->prepare( "SELECT alpha FROM main WHERE alpha LIKE '%$s
+earch_ip %'" );
$sth->execute();
my ($complete_match) = $sth->fetchrow_array;

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That gets my information out of the database, but how do I get that into HTML::Template? I have tried this:
$template->param(cm => $complete_match);
print $CGI->header( );
print $CGI->title("returned data!");
print $template->output;

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That gives me the follwoing error:

HTML::Template::param() : attempt to set parameter 'cm' with a scalar - parameter is not a TMPL_VAR! at /var/www/asd/www.pl line 60

If someone could point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated.

Thank you very much.

In reply to DBI, HTML::Template and loops by Anonymous Monk

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