Dear Monks I have the following script, that reads a list of columns from my database and then geenrates a list of checkboxes and two submit buttons in order for me to send the selected checkboxes names as parameters to a second script my first script is :

#!/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', 'pass')
    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 ");
$sth->execute;
my @cols = @{$sth->{NAME}}; # or NAME_lc if needed
#print "@cols\n";

$sth->finish;

#creating and 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/tissue_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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I want my second script , for starters to just print which tissue names I have selected. I am fdoing the following, but to no result, it prints that I have selected 0 tissues

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use CGI ':standard';
use DBI;

my $q= CGI->new();

print $q->header(), $q->start_html();




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 ");
$sth->execute;
my @cols = @{$sth->{NAME}}; # or NAME_lc if needed
#print "@cols\n";

$sth->finish;

my @responce;
my $tissues;

@responce = param('fields_to_search');


$tissues = $#responce +1;

print "<FONT SIZE =4> You have selected the following $tissues tissues
+";
print "</FONT>", end_html;
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Could somebody notice and let me know what I am doing wrong? I am pretty sure that I am not passing the correct parameters around Thank you all for your help