O Monks, A newbie question:

I have an html5 web form which I want to be able to submit to a perl script and then have a second form displayed that displays results, and provides more options to the user; depending on which button they press, the information is relayed back to my program (same script but different subroutine, is how that would work, I guess?), the data is handled in the backend, and then the process starts over.

if you need a diagram,

form_1 -input-> script -> output -> form_2 -> input -> script -> done, repeat at form_1

as far as CGI goes, to format output data, I am aware of HTML::Template, but I'm not sure it's the right tool for the job. Is it?

In reply to A noobish question about forms by dr_jkl

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