Displaying fetched values in html form

--------------080001020305010907040909
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I'm not sure if this is the right forum so i'd appreciate pointers to
the correct place if i'm wrong.

I've got DBI running between apache and an Oracle 10gR2 database. I can
insert data with no problem. Here's what i'm attempting to do.

1. Put up a HTML form where user enters his userid, password, and
emailid.
2. I pass this information t a perl module and verify his user exists
in the database.
3. If successfully validating this user I get account information
from the database, put up a html form, and post that information
to text boxes in the html form.

The problem i'm having is returning the data to the text areas in the
form. I can print the data coming back from the database so that piece
is working. When I set the value in the text box to $username in the
text box I get $username instead of what was returned from the database.
I can print the actual returned username by doing a print of $username
variable but outside the text block. Ultimately I would like the user to
be able to make changes to their user information then i'll update the
database. I'm sure this can be done and that means i'm probably looking
past something really obvious. Google has not been much use. Any ideas?

Stumped

--------------080001020305010907040909--

Re: Displaying fetched values in html form

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:50:55 -0700, Kevin Moore wrote:

Hi Kevin

It's impossible to debug invisible code (without loading the Telepathy=
module
:-), so posting it would help.

As for the forum, your description does not suggest a DBI problem, but=
rather a
general Perl problem. Hence I suggest the newsgroup comp.lang.perl.misc.
--
Cheers
Ron Savage, ron@savage.net.au on 13/06/2006
http://savage.net.au/index.html
Let the record show: Microsoft is not an Australian company

Re: Displaying fetched values in html form

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Moore"
To: "DBI List"
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 5:50 PM
Subject: Displaying fetched values in html form


> I'm not sure if this is the right forum so i'd appreciate pointers to
> the correct place if i'm wrong.
>
> I've got DBI running between apache and an Oracle 10gR2 database. I can
> insert data with no problem. Here's what i'm attempting to do.
>
> 1. Put up a HTML form where user enters his userid, password, and
> emailid.
> 2. I pass this information t a perl module and verify his user exists
> in the database.
> 3. If successfully validating this user I get account information
> from the database, put up a html form, and post that information
> to text boxes in the html form.
>
> The problem i'm having is returning the data to the text areas in the
> form. I can print the data coming back from the database so that piece
> is working. When I set the value in the text box to $username in the
> text box I get $username instead of what was returned from the database.
> I can print the actual returned username by doing a print of $username
> variable but outside the text block. Ultimately I would like the user to
> be able to make changes to their user information then i'll update the
> database. I'm sure this can be done and that means i'm probably looking
> past something really obvious. Google has not been much use. Any ideas?
>
> Stumped
>
Are you using CGI.pm?

perldoc CGI

beginners-cgi@perl.org