Forms using CGI/Perl to generate HTML

I'm trying to generate HTML Email signatures by submiting personal information to a CGI script form an HTML form.

I want users to submit their first and last names and phone numbers to a CGI script that will return an HTML page of a formatted company email signature using the submitted contact info.

Right now I'm working with a CGI script that uses Perl.
I've checked out a few CGI script pages but they all want to send email which is what I don't want to do.

How can I get the values from QUERY_STRING to print out within my HTML template using the CGI script.

Thanks

The Perl CGI-Lib (Direct Download) is probably the easiest way to deal with form data.

This is a good example of how to parse POST data into a hash.

Hi,

do you know what module your Perl script is using (if any). I'd guess it uses the CGI module(cgi.pm) which is generally recomended over cgi-lib.

Without knowing anything about the script it's hard for us to help. Can you post your script here? Also this should probably be in the Perl forum as opposed to the Scripts forum.

If you are using the cgi module, it's documentation can be found here, you might find something useful there.

Check out Ovids CGI Course for an excellent intro to Perl and cgi.

Displeaser

Hi... I went from a Javascript popup to writing my first CGI Script, from the quick research I did most sites were telling me to write a CGI script using PERL both scripting languages I knew nothing about. I seemed to a cool little parsing scritp that would tokenize the QUERRY_STRING so I could pull out any and all form values that someone would generate.

It wasn't long until I wrote code that would pull out the values I was looking for or values someone elses form would send my script.

The site is working great right now. The CGI-Lib helped lots.

Thanks for responding!