I have a CGI script that builds html forms, does DB access, DB creation, etc. I need to be able to easily modify it for others in our company to use. I thought I could use hash keys and values to accomplish this. I am integrating pager systems one uses a website the other files on a unix system. The web based script stores its information in a mysql DB. Different groups want to have their own system that stores different information in the DB and desire different displays of this information. Only a small portion of the DB data is required for the actual paging systems but folks would like to consolidate their information there. How to do this or is there a much better way. Here is my 1st idea a code sample that reads the form values specified in a hash, I would also use the hash(es) to build the DB, html forms, ect. - 
use CGI;
%var_name = (
       opp              => 'Operation',
       name             => 'Name',
            );
for $vname (keys %var_name){
    $statement='$'.qq!$vname = param('$vname')!;
    # this did not work
    eval{ $statement };
    # nor did this
    ${statement};
    print "$vname is $${vname}<br>\n";
}

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This code would create these perl statements which I would need to have it execute. 
$opp=param('opp');
$name=param('name');

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In reply to How to do dynamic stuff with perl by swares

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