[poulh]

Let's say I have a form with two fields.

name=first_name
name=last_name

I enter John Smith into the two fields/

i have a script that runs called do_something.cgi

how does do_something.cgi get ahold of the values in my form?

is it in a hash? if so what is the name of the hash?

are they just variables?

i'm not too got at cgi.pm (yet), so if you could show me how to do it without that module that would be great.

[clam2000]

in your form you specify method and action

method is either 'get' or 'post'
if it is get it shows up in the url line (something.cgi?name=xyz)

with post it gets sent to the cgi script through stdin

action is where it sends to, in this case your cgi script

in cgi you can find what has been sent fairly easily

Code:



read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
    ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
    $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
    $FORM{$name} = $value;
}

that sample is for post (notice the read STDIN)

search google for form parsing in perl for more examples

--will