I am working on an application that will act as a phone directory. One option a user will have is to display all phone numbers in the directory. I am a beginner with perl and I am unsure how to display the contents of a DB in an HTML form? Since this is a phone directory, when this particular run mode is called, I would like to preserve the records being returned and ordered by last name. Do I have to place the rows into an array or a hash before they are displayed in the form? Not sure...here's what I have so far: 
sub displayphone {

    #Retrieve current state of the object
    my $self = shift;

    #Prepare DB by establishing DB handle and statement handle
    my $dbh = $self->param('dbh');
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare('Select * FROM directory ORDER BY last_nam
+e');

    #Execute MySQL
    $sth->execute;

    #Create an array to hold the values returned from the DB before th
+ey are displayed in a form
    my @results;

    foreach (


                    )

}

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