cgi submit button

[gshirey]

I'm trying to figure out how to get the "submit button" using cgi.pm to send me to a new page, running a new cgi script. Details: I have a user logged in and am asking them what they would like to do now. One of the choices is "Create a Quote for a Customer." I would like for them to be able to choose that from a drop down list, then press a submit button and go to the quote generation page. Any suggestions? Any description of the submit function would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

 

[goBoating]

There is a FAQ in the CGI forum that might be worth taking a look at. faq452-653

Here is a simple example of a select with a submit button.
HTH

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI;
$cgi = new CGI;
$this_prog = $cgi->self_url;

# normal html start stuff
print $cgi->header,
      $cgi->start_html(-title=>"A Simple CGI Input Page");

my $some_var = $cgi->param('some_var');
if ($some_var)
    {
    print &quot;<P>You selected - $some_var</P>\n&quot;;
    }
else
    { 
    print $cgi->start_form(-method=>'POST',-action=>&quot;$this_prog&quot;),
        &quot;Make a selection: &quot;,
        $cgi->popup_menu('some_var',
        	['one','two','three','four'],
        	'one'),        
        ' ',$cgi->submit(-name=>'Submit',-value=>'submit'),
        $cgi->endform,&quot;</center>&quot;;
    }
    
# close the HTML page.
print $cgi->end_html;

keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo

 

[tsdragon]

It sounds like what you want to do is a "redirect". Assuming that the variable $newpage contains the FULL url of the page to go to (that's means it has to contain the "

http://"

and all), this code will do it:

print "Location: $newpage\n\n";

Do NOT print anything else before or after this line, or it probably won't work correctly. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

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