My First Survey

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

I've been prompted to create an online survey through which 30 students can submit their feedback regarding class activities. Although it is more robust than is needed, I have an interest in improving my MySQL knowledge, so I'd like to use that to store and analyze the results. I have enough experience with HTML and MySQL to create the survey and queue the database, but I don't know how to get the data from the web form into the database. Should I being using PHP? How can Perl tie the steps together? Thanks

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Re: My First Survey by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 28, 2010 at 22:51 UTC
See CGI Programming for a start into CGI. I found Ovid's CGI Course particularly helpful when I was starting out in server side coding. True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re: My First Survey by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 29, 2010 at 01:04 UTC
Perl offers excellent DB management... via modules like DBI. References follow: search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/DBI.pm dbi.perl.org `perldoc DBI` (once you've install DBI.pm) Sample: 'perl MySQL & DBI' MySQL and Perl for the Web (The last is a text I particularly admire and depend upon.)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: My First Survey by Poincare (Initiate) on Mar 28, 2010 at 23:54 UTC
CGI is frankly is a pain in the @ss. Its 2010, use Catalyst or anything on here: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?web_frameworks .	[reply]
Re^2: My First Survey by Anonymous Monk on Mar 29, 2010 at 00:50 UTC
They are CGI. Oh you meant CGI module? They use CGI module	[reply]