The Code
#!/bin/perl
#
use strict;
use CGI;
sub main {
# create the HTML header:
my $q = CGI->new; #create new CGI object
print $q->header;
print $q->start_html('form example');
# define the two different kinds of actions:
my $action = CGI::param("action");
my $comment = CGI::param("comment");
# if the action is update (ie: has values)
if ( $action eq "update" ) {
print $q->h1('Updating DB'), "\n";
# update text file here
my @acls = ("one", "two", "three"); # load your acls from the master config
foreach my $acl (@acls) {
my $comment = CGI::param($acl);
# update the data base with new $comment
print $q->h2('Comment updated for ', $acl, ": "), "\n";
print "$comment<br>\n";
}
print $q->hr,p;
}
# Normal start: (not an update)
print start_form(-method=>'post');
print hidden(-name=>'action', -value=>'update'), "\n\n";
# load comments into %commentHash
print "<table>\n";
my @acls = ("one", "two", "three"); # load your acls from the master config
foreach my $acl (@acls) {
# get comment for $acl and put in $comment
#my $comment = $commentHash{"$acl"};
my $comment = "comment for $acl";
print "<tr><td>$acl</td><td>";
print qq(<textarea cols="40" rows="3" name="$acl">$comment</textarea>);
print "<td></tr>\n";
}
print "</table>\n";
# create submit button, and have it set action
print submit(-name=>'action', -value=>'submit'), "\n\n";
print $q->end_html;
}
main();
The initial Output:
What the page looks like:
What the code is:
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US">
<head>
<title>form example</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="/mod-perl/test.pl" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="update" />
<table>
<tr><td>one</td><td><textarea cols="40" rows="3" name="one">comment for one</textarea><td></tr>
<tr><td>two</td><td><textarea cols="40" rows="3" name="two">comment for two</textarea><td></tr>
<tr><td>three</td><td><textarea cols="40" rows="3" name="three">comment for three</textarea><td></tr>
</table>
<input type="submit" name="action" value="submit" />
</body>
</html>
After the submit:
What the page looks like:
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US">
<head>
<title>form example</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Updating DB</h1>
<h2>Comment updated for one : </h2>
comment for one<br>
<h2>Comment updated for two : </h2>
comment for two<br>
<h2>Comment updated for three : </h2>
comment for three<br>
<hr /><p /><form method="post" action="/mod-perl/test.pl" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="update" /><input type="hidden" name="action" value="submit" />
<table>
<tr><td>one</td><td><textarea cols="40" rows="3" name="one">comment for one</textarea><td></tr>
<tr><td>two</td><td><textarea cols="40" rows="3" name="two">comment for two</textarea><td></tr>
<tr><td>three</td><td><textarea cols="40" rows="3" name="three">comment for three</textarea><td></tr>
</table>
<input type="submit" name="action" value="submit" />
</body>
</html>
What the code is:
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