Hallo perlmonks, I am using the following code in order to read the columns of a table in my sql database and then create a list of checkboxes. The problem is that when I try to modify the select statement in order to get the rows of a column, I just get the column name instead of all the rows. Any idea why this is happening? Also after solving that I want to create a select statement including oly the checked checkboxes. any hint on how to achieve that would be extremely usefull Thank everyone in advance for their help

#!/usr/bin/perl

use DBI;
use CGI ':standard';
use strict; use warnings;

my $q= CGI->new();

print header, start_html('Advanced Search');

# Connect to the database

my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:mirnas', 'root', 'bi0u90ee')
    or die "Couldn't open database: $DBI::errstr; stopped";
    
    
# Getting all the column names and creating checkboxes for them
my $table = '07_11_09';
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * from $table where 1=0); #this works!
+!!
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT mirna FROM $table ");
#this doesn't , it only displays the column name, not every row in the
+ column !!!!!
$sth->execute;
my @cols = @{$sth->{NAME}}; # or NAME_lc if needed
$sth->finish;

#printing the checkboxes
print
checkbox_group(-name=>'fields_to_search',
               -values=>\@cols # Your array above
              );
#storing the parameters from the checkboxes
my @fields_to_search=param('fields_to_search');



#creating the submit boxes

print'<FORM 
    ACTION="http://sirocco/cgi-bin/advanced_search.pl"
    METHOD="POST">';                          #here it submits the sel
+ected parameters to a search form
print br, '<INPUT TYPE = "SUBMIT"VALUE="Click To Submit">';
print '<INPUT TYPE="RESET"VALUE=Clear>';
print '</FORM>', end_html;
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