passing html form values

[jimmyJIMMYyaya]

ok i have two fields in my html document
1) txtSearchString
2) cboSearchType

now i want to use $ENV{'QUERRY_STRING'}; to get the values
but what i need to know is how to pass the values on submit ie
<form action=&quot;cgi-bin/search.pl?txtSearchString&cboSearchType&quot; method=&quot;post&quot;>

is there a way

 

[motte]

#creates input hash from each parameter in param
use CGI qwcommon);
my $cgi=CGI->new();
my %input;

foreach my $p($cgi->param()) {
$input{$p}=$cgi->param($p);
}


This makes the key be whatever the name of each field in the form is. The value for the key is determined by $cgi->param($p). This works for the querystring/method=get as well as for method=post. This of course, is after you set your form and hit submit.

Also try this:

#seperates to keep each field=value...
my @values=split(/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});
my $var;
my $val;

#seperates the field=value
foreach my $value (@values)
{
($var, $val) = split /=/, $value;

print $var.&quot; = &quot;.$val.&quot;<br>&quot;;
}


Each one of these works. The first though works for get and post. The second only works for get. Hope this helps. Good luck.

Mike

 

[goBoating]

please see faq452-653 which covers some of the basics of CGI.

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