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Author calling perl program within a cgi script with parameters from html form
Deepblues

2005-04-26, 3:55 pm

I have a problem linking my cgi script to the perl function.
I have perl functions to perform manipulations to the database.
I am creating a web front end to it. I have a html form which accepts data
from the user and calls the cgi script ( in perl)which processes this data ,
performs validation and passes the form data as parameters to a perl
program. My cgi script seems to work fine as far as processinng goes. My
perl program works too. But I am not able to call the perl program from the
cgi script. I am tryin to test the main perl program by having lots of HTML
output statements. but it doesn't appear on the webpage.
suppose my form values are stored in variables
$a = param('name')
$b = param('age')
Now I need to call a perl function wth $a, $b as parameters.
My $string = "perl test.pl $a $b"
system($string)
This is wht I am using now. when I try eg: perl test.pl john 12 It works.
And the variables are bnided properly in cgi script. I cheked to make sure.
Can anyone suggest how i should proceed.
Thanks in advance
Deepblues

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