"50 users at a time. 50 name fields , 50 address fields,"

That rings alarm bells for me.

Either :
1. You are asking someone to manually input details of 50 users at once, or

2. You are expecting an automaton to fill in the form.

In the First case, presumably the users has the input in some other form and is retyping it. If so, get access to the source data (e.g. a spreadsheet or other data file) and input that directly. You will save the user a lot of typing, and will reduce typos and errors dramatically.

In the second case, use a more lightweight mechanism like Soap::Lite to create a server process to receive new user registrations, in which case they can be done one at a time.

Any time you are looking to do something 50 times on a web page, there has to be a better way.


In reply to Re: Strategy to name/process many similar form fields with cgi.pm? by Brovnik
in thread Strategy to name/process many similar form fields with cgi.pm? by punch_card_don

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