Ant, Thank you for your response to my question. I am still fairly new to CGI scripting, which is why I need to ask the following question: How should the script look with the push added? I've tried multiple ways of inserting the push but I keep getting a 500-Internal Error. I understand this completely: 
  print $query->popup_menu(-name=>'userid',
                            -values=>\@users);

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But the part that has me stiffled, is this: 
# open the text database
    unless(open(PFD,$db))
    {
        &printError("Could not open user database");
        exit(1);
    }
    
# first check if user exist
    $path='';
    while (<PFD>)
    {
        chomp;
        ($u,$p,$path)=split('\|',$_);###$u loop?? how?
        if ($userid eq $u)
        {
            $rc=1;
            last;

        }
    }
    close(PFD);

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Thank you so much

In reply to Re: Re: Drop Down Selection #2 by koacamper
in thread Drop Down Selection #2 by koacamper

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