Posted by Ed Jay on 10/30/05 23:11

Joe Smith <joe@inwap.com> wrote:

>Ed Jay wrote:
>> I'm writing a Perl script that processes various form data and outputs a
>> report based on the data. I want to use a single Perl script, but collect
>> the data on multiple html pages. I do not particularly want to create the
>> html pages from within the Perl script. How do I do it?
>
>What is the source of the form data? Are you getting it from a file
>(data previously processed) or straight from the browser (CGI in realtime)?
>
>For the latter, simply use a hidden field to identify which subsection
>of your CGI program to use to parse the data. Grab the data from
>the browser as each page comes in and write it somewhere. You'll
>have to have some sort of mechanism to inform your CGI when the
>data collection is complete so that it can create a summary.
>
>This is assuming that you are not trying to parse the HTML output
>from another site's CGI program. You'd want WWW::Mechanize for that.
>
Thanks, Joe.

I ended up doing as you suggested, above. I read in a page from a browser,
save the data, and create the next page from within the Perl script with
the previously stored data as a hidden form field.

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Ed Jay (remove M to respond by email)

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