Posted by mbstevens on 09/15/06 14:58

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:09:06 -0700, carlg wrote:

> Sorry if this is the wrong place for this question, but the Perl people
> tell me it's a cgi programming question. I looked for a cgi programming
> group but couldn't find one, so I hope this is a good place to ask the
> question. ;-)
>
> How would I write a simple web app in Perl+cgi that has state? Let's say
> I just want to have a web page that has an input field, an Accept button
> and a Clear button. Whenever I type some text into the field and click on
> Accept it concatenates the text in the field with an existing string and
> displays it on the web page. So I can submit a few
>
> words one at a time and make a sentence. Clicking the Clear button lets
> me start over.

In order of my own preferance:
1) Let cgi.pm handle it (read docs on cgi.pm)
2) set a cookie
3) generate hidden fields in a web page

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