I am new to PERL and CGI, as well as this forum, so please bear with me. I'm having trouble with a project I have in a Web class. I have an HTML form for visitors to fill out. On submitting, it calls a cgi script to parse the text input , put it into a table, and reply with a confirmation response displaying the table and a link back to the form or home page. All this works. However, I need to incorporate a script to parse and store the input to a database, and a script to check the name and password input against this database to 1)determines if the visitor submitted before (Welcome Back, here's your record) or 2) it's a new submit, giving the confirmation response (Thank you, here is your input). I'm working on the response if it is a new submit but the visitor forgot the password, to send an email providing them with the password. But, this will be based on creating the database of previous input. So, can any wise masters guide me on my quest for knowledge? I'm sure it would help to see what I have so far, in order to assist. I can send the HTML files and script I have to anyone who has the patience and time to help tutor me. Thank you for any consideration.

In reply to Parse form data to database by tryharder

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