Form Confusing...

[perlone]

Hi,

Once again I'm writing a script that uses lots of subroutines like explore.cgi?mode=forums. Here's half of my code.

if ($query =~m/warehouse/) {
&explore(qq
~<form
action=&quot;explore.cgi?&mode=visit&quot;
method=&quot;POST&quot;>
<p><font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot;><strong>IK: </strong>Visit
Warehouse No:<br>
</font><select name=&quot;number&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;>
<option value=&quot;1&quot;>1</option>
#rest of my HTML code
~, &quot;Warehouses&quot;

SECOND PART OF MY SCRIPT

if ($query =~m/forums/) {
&explore(qq~
form action=&quot;msgpost.cgi&quot; method=&quot;POST&quot;>
#more HTML codes then...
</center></div><p align=&quot;center&quot;><input type=&quot;submit&quot;
value=&quot;Post&quot;> <input type=&quot;reset&quot; value=&quot;Clear&quot;></p>
~,&quot;Forums&quot;

PROBLEM: As you can see now there's 2 parts of forms with 2 urls. One from the first subroutine, which is explore.cgi?mode=visit and the other from the subroutine, &quot;forums&quot; which is msgpost.cgi. Somehow when I go to the forums section and click on the &quot;Post&quot; to post a message, perl is redirecting to explore.cgi?mode=warehouse instead of msgpost.cgi. I think perl got confused or something within the 2 subroutines but can anyone help me fix this? Thanks for your time.

-Aaron

 

[bartl]

<form action=&quot;explore.cgi?&mode=visit&quot; method=&quot;POST&quot;>

You're mixing two methods of passing parameters to a CGI script: GET and POST. Don't. Put the mode into a hidden variable.

<form action=&quot;explore.cgi&quot; method=&quot;POST&quot;>
<input type=hidden name=mode value=visit>