Jarek has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi everyone, What I think is. If is there any way to display a page in CGI, where you've got some news for example and you would have something in the code like: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use warnings;
use CGI;
my $content = new CGI;
print $content->header("text/html");
print "SOME TEXT HERE";
<SUBMIT BUTTON WITH ACTION SOME ACTION (WHAT ACTION?)- MUST BE PRESSED
+ IF YOU WANT TO READ MORE>
if ( $pressed )
{
print "REST OF THE PAGE";
}
print $content->end_html;

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I hope you know what I mean. Generaly I want to execute the rest of the code when button was pressed. Is there any simple way to do it ? Regards, Jarek

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Re: How to display part of the page when click on submit (CGI)
by zwon (Abbot) on Nov 13, 2009 at 19:49 UTC 
    use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
if($ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} eq 'GET') {
    # print form with method 'POST' and submit button
}
else {
    # print the rest of the page
}

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    Perhaps AJAX would suit you better for this.

    I hope you know what I mean.

    Sure, I'm certified telepathic :)

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[d/l]
      Hehe, thanks. The problem is I cant reload the page, as it's executed by remote site using CURL. I have looked around and I haven't found anything better than AJAX. The problem is I'm not familiar with AJAX at all. Thank you again. Regards.
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