I program Perl CGI every day. What often works for me is to use no static HTML pages at all, and to generate all HTML dynamically.

If Form A calls Form B calls Form C, then have the form handler for Form A do its processing and then generate Form B before it exits. Similarly, the form handler for Form B should do its processing and then generate Form C before it exits.

I would not combine the form handlers for two dissimilar pages in the same script.

However, if two pages are similar then I call them both using the same form handler. I use CGI.pm's referer() (sic, only three r's in the CGI.pm spelling) function to see which page called the form, and then have the form modify its processing accordingly.

In reply to Re: generarting dynamic html using perl by sierrathedog04
in thread generarting dynamic html using perl by new_2_perl

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