Fellow Monks,
I have put some validation onto a form so to ensure that a field gets filled. This works fine for me, except now I want the form elements to get passed onto another cgi script. Here's a bit of the code
# Process form if submitted; otherwise display it
if ($co->param("submit")){
process_form ( );
}else{
display_form ( );
}
sub process_form{
if ( validate_form()){
print $co->start_form(
-method=>'POST',
-action=>"http://mywebserver/cgi-bin/script2.cgi
+",
),
$co->end_form(),
$co->end_html;
END{}
}
}
sub validate_form{
my $searchfield = $co->param("searchfield");
my $error_message = "";
$error_message .= "Please enter a value into the searchfield<b
+r>" if ( $searchfield eq "" );
if ($error_message){
# Errors with the form - redisplay it and return failu
+re
display_form ( $error_message, $searchfield, );
return 0;
}else{
# Form OK - return success
return 1;
}
}
The display_form sub simply displays the main page, starts like this
sub display_form{
my $error_message = shift;
my $searchfield = shift;
print $co->start_form(
-method=>'POST',
-action=>"http://mywebserver/cgi-bin/script1.cgi
+",
),
.
.
. #loads of extra stuff here
.
.
$co->hidden( -name=>'submit', -value=> "Submit"),
),
$co->end_form(),
Everything works fine, except the sub process_form, I would like this sub to send my fields onto script2.cgi for further processing (i.e. as if a hidden submit button on this form was automatically pressed - can this be done) can anybody direct me into the right direction for doing this.
Also, I was wondering, (and I really don't mean to offend anyone here) are the scripts used to create the perlmonks website available to take a look at or even download?
Thanks in advance,
Jonathan