Ok, I'm not quite sure what you are after but it sounds like instead of reading text from a file, you want to read it from a form. Is that right?

If so, you need to look at something like cgi.pm This will allow you to create a form, and then you can get the value of that form when you hit submit.

So basically, do you have the form created already? Is the action on that form your perl script? Is your perl script getting the values? If you answered yes, then you just need to submit that to your database. If you answered no to any of those questions, you need to give us more information and code. Suggested snippets of code to include: Part of the form that shows a field you want to insert, your sql insert statement and anything else you think might help.

In reply to Re: Right answer (wrong question...) by MCS
in thread Right answer (wrong question...) by bobafifi

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