Re: Form Action

As I sort of mentioned before, you seem to be having trouble understanding program execution flow. I think you're forgetting something fairly basic:

Unless you're deliberately changing the execution flow programs are executed from top to bottom.

In other words, since the only place you assign a value to $action is at the very end, that variable will be undefined everywhere else it's being used.

You'll also want to read up on how the web works. and see Ovid's CGI course.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

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Re^2: Form Action by Zcity (Novice) on Jul 03, 2006 at 12:55 UTC
Thanks to All for the help. Anyways, i got it to work by doing this: `print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "<HTML>\n"; print "<HEAD>\n"; print "<TITLE>Forum</TITLE>\n"; print "</HEAD>\n"; print "<BODY>\n"; print "<FORM METHOD=POST>\n"; print "<INPUT TYPE='submit' VALUE='Preview' name='preview' onClick=thi +s.form.action='preview.cgi';this.form.target=''>\n"; print "<INPUT TYPE='submit' VALUE='Submit Reply' name='reply' onClick= +this.form.action='createreply.cgi';this.form.target=''><br>\n"; print "</FORM>\n"; print "</BODY>\n"; print "</HTML>\n";` [download] Code tags added by GrandFather	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Form Action by davidrw (Prior) on Jul 03, 2006 at 19:55 UTC
using here-docs will make that output code cleaner and resolve some quoting issues (your onClick values will be problematic as-is)... `print <<EOF; Content-type: text/html <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Forum</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <FORM METHOD="POST"> <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Preview" name="preview" onClick="this.fo +rm.action='preview.cgi';this.form.target=''"> <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit Reply" name="reply" onClick="this +.form.action='createreply.cgi';this.form.target=''"> </FORM> </BODY> </HTML>` [download] or, using CGI: `print header, start_html( -title => 'forum' ), start_form( -method => 'POST' ), submit( -name => 'preview', -value=>'Preview', -onClick => "this.for +m.action='preview.cgi';this.form.target=''" ), submit( -name => 'reply', -value=>'Submit Reply', -onClick => "this. +form.action='createreply.cgi';this.form.target=''" ), end_form, end_html, ;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]