text area form post, to new form on perl page

bigredmike24 · Mar 28, 2007

I need to have a user input an HTML form post, into a textarea, the textarea then needs to be submitted to a perl script, where the values passed will be called into the new form post. How can I write the text area code so it will post correctly to my perl script?

travs69 · Mar 28, 2007

What do you have so far? Are you using cgi.pm?

twantrd · Apr 2, 2007

Here is the html page:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Blah</title>
<body>
<h1>::.Form.::</h1>
Input a string:
<form name="form" method="post" action="/cgi-bin/perlform.cgi">
<input type="text" size="30" maxlength="30" name="text">
<p>
<input type="submit" name="submitbutton" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Here is your perl script:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; 

use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); 

$query=CGI::new();
$input=$query->param("text");
print $query->header();
print $query->p("You entered: $input.");

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text area form post, to new form on perl page

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