Hi,(NEW UPDATED QUESTION) I wrote a PERL .cgi script to connect to database. I also created a html form for user input. The idea is to pass parameters from HTML form to CGI. However, when I run the html file from the browser it simply publishes the script instead of passing parameters. Yes, I have configured Apache for CGI and gave write permissions to my files. The cgi file is in cgi-bin and the html file in htdocs. Please help why this isn't working. Here is my html file contactsform.html:

<html>
<head><title>ADDRESS BOOK</title></head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000" vlink="#C000FF"
+>
<h1>ADDRESS BOOK CONTACTS</h1>

<table>
<form method="post" action="C:/Apache/Apache2/cgi-bin/sqlconfig.cgi">

  <tr>
  <td align="right">Last Name:</td>
  <td align="left"><input type="text" name="lname" size="15" maxlength
+="50"></td>
  <td align="right">First Name:</td>
  <td align="left"><input type="text" name="fname" size="15" maxlength
+="50"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td align="right">Phone:</td>
  <td align="left"><input type="text" name="phone" size="15" maxlength
+="50"></td>
  <td align="right">Email:</td>
  <td align="left"><input type="text" name="email" size="15" maxlength
+="50"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td align="right">Address:</td>
  <td align="left"><input type="text" name="address" size="15" maxleng
+th="50"></td>
  <td align="right">Zip Code:</td>
  <td align="left"><input type="text" name="zip" size="15" maxlength="
+50"></td>
  </tr>
  </table>

<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

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And this is the perl script sqlconfig.cgi:


#!c:/Dwimperl/perl/bin/perl.exe
# PERL MODULES WE WILL BE USING
use CGI;
use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;

# Config DB variables
our $platform = "mysql";
our $database = "test";
our $host = "localhost";
our $port = "3306";
our $tablename = "addressbook";
our $user = "root";
our $pw = "password";
our $q = new CGI;

# DATA SOURCE NAME
$dsn = "dbi:mysql:$database:localhost:3306";

# PERL DBI CONNECT
$connect = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $pw);

#Get the parameter from your html form.
$lname=$q->param('lname');
$fname=$q->param('fname');
$phone=$q->param('phone');
$email=$q->param('email');
$address=$q->param('address');
$zip=$q->param('zip');

print $q->header; 

$sql="INSERT INTO test.addressbook(last_name,first_name) values('$lnam
+e','$fname')";
$sth = $connect->prepare($sql)
or die "Can't prepare $sql: $connect->errstrn";
#pass sql query to database handle..

$rv = $sth->execute
or die "can't execute the query: $sth->errstrn";
#execute your query

if ($rv==1){
print "Record has been successfully updated !!!n";
}else{
print "Error!!while inserting recordn";
exit;
}

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In reply to How to bind html page with PERL script to accept user input to Mysql database (eg. Phonebook) by newtoperl101

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