[prog] simple HTML form

[Caroline Johnston]

Hi Chris,

Welcome to the list :)

If you're using Perl for the back end, take a look at the CGI module on
CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.25/CGI.pm. There's a good
tutorial at: http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/

If you need to generate HTML from perl, the CGI.pm module has methods to
help (generate headers, tags and stuff) or you could use a
templating system. Template Toolkit's probably the most popular one
(http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/default/index.html).

There's also a fairly new web-framework called Catalyst that's trying to
do for Perl what Rails does for Ruby. It has plugins for useful stuff like
session management, access controls to pages etc. Total overkill for a
single form, but if you're planning to do anything more adventurous in the
way of Perl web development it might be worth having a look. The Catalyst
site is at http://www.catalystframework.org/ and there's a tutorial at
http://search.cpan.org/~jrockway/Catalyst-Manual-5.700501/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Tutorial.pod

Cass xx



On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Chris Henderson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to the list & trying to make a HTML page which will let users change
> the content and then save it.
> The users will see ("view") a form which will have drop-down menus, radio
> buttons etc. Users will then click "edit form" to edit the form they are
> seeing and change the information. For example, they might change Country
> from USA to Argentina from the drop-down menu list.
> And then they will save the form and the new saved form is viewable.
>
> Making the form is easy. But I'm not quite sure about saving the form and
> then making it viewable.
>
> Is there any easy way of doing this in HTML? I really don't want to use
> anything else other than HTML if I can help it.
>
> Thanks.
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