Very close to done with my term project I have been working on/stressing about for days, I just have one small error. My html isn't sending over the values for name and day, and it must be html because when I assign default values to the parameters it sends those to the database. Heres my code. HTML 
<html>
<center><h1><div>Enter the user that you would like to change data for
+ .</div></h1></center>

<form action = "http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/change.cgi" method="POST">
<div>Name: <input name="name" size="15"></div>
<div>New phone number: <input name="phone" size="15"></div>
<div>New on-call day: <input name="day" size="15"></div>
<div><input type="submit"></div>
</form>
</html>

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CGI 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI qw(standard);
use DBI();
use DBD::mysql;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;


my $q = CGI->new;

my $name = $q->param('name');
my $number = $q->param('phone');
my $day = $q->param('day');


my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:oncall','webuser','password')
    or die "Connection Error: $DBI::errstr\n";
    
    my $sth=$dbh->prepare("UPDATE users SET day = ?, phone =? WHERE na
+me = ?");
    $sth->execute($day,$number,$name);
    
    
    #Disconnecting from database
    $dbh->disconnect();

  print $q->header,
  $q->h1('you submitted the change!'),
  $q->end_html;

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In reply to Almost done with project. by Chaotic Jarod

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