Actually I have a CGI form which consists of textfields and I need a combobox in which I can enter my own data dynamically. May be it seems very silly question but I am new to cgi-perl as well as HTML so no idea what to do. Here is my form:
#!C:\perl\bin\perl.exe
use CGI;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
my $q = new CGI;
use DBI;
use CGI qw(:all);
use strict;
use warnings;
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print $q->header ( );
if ( $q->param("submit") )
{
process_form ( );
}
else
{
display_form ( );
}
sub process_form
{
if ( validate_form ( ) )
{
display_form ( );
}
}
sub validate_form
{
my $User_Name = $q->param("User_Name");
my $User_Password= $q->param("User_Password");
my $User_Permission = $q->param("User_Permission");
my $User_Department= join(", ",$q->param("User_Department"));
my $error_message = "";
$error_message .= "Please enter your name<br/>" if( !$User_Name );
$error_message .= "Please enter your Password<br/>" if( ! $User_Password );
$error_message .= "Please Select a permission<br/>" if( !$User_Permission );
$error_message .= "Please select atleast 1 department<br/>" if(!$User_Department);
if ( $error_message )
{
display_form (
$error_message,$User_Name,$User_Password,$User_Permission,$User_Department);
return 0;
}
else
{
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:DEVICE.db","", "",{RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit =>
1 } );
my $sql = "SELECT COUNT(UserName) FROM UsersList WHERE UserName='$User_Name'";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die("\n\nPREPARE ERROR:\n\n$DBI::errstr");
$sth->execute or die("\n\nQUERY ERROR:\n\n$DBI::errstr");
my ($n) = $dbh->selectrow_array($sth);
$sth->finish();
if ($n > 0) {
print "Record Already Exists";
}
else {
my $sql = "INSERT INTO UsersList (UserName,Password,Permission,Department) VALUES
('$User_Name ',' $User_Password','$User_Permission','$User_Department')";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute;
print "Record Added Successfully";
$sth->finish();
$dbh->commit or die $dbh->errstr;
}
$dbh->disconnect;
}
}
sub display_form
{
my $error_message = shift;
my $User_Name = shift;
my $User_Password = shift;
my $User_Permission= shift;
my $User_Department= shift;
my $User_Permission_Add_sel = $User_Permission eq "Add" ? " checked" : "";
my $User_Permission_Edit_sel =$User_Permission eq "Edit" ? " checked" : "";
my $User_Permission_Delete_sel =$User_Permission eq "Delete" ? " checked" : "";
my $User_Permission_View_sel =$User_Permission eq "View" ? " checked" : "";
my $User_Department_html = "";
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:DEVICE.db","", "",{RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit =>
1 } );
my $sql = "select DepartmentName from Departments order by DepartmentName";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute() ;
while (my $User_Department_option= $sth->fetchrow_array)
{
$User_Department_html.= "<option value=\"$User_Department_option\"";
$User_Department_html.= " selected" if ( $User_Department_option eq
$User_Department );
$User_Department_html.= ">$User_Department_option</option>";
}
$sth->finish();
$dbh->commit or die $dbh->errstr;
print <<END_HTML;
<html>
<head><title>Form Validation</title></head>
<body>
<form action="AddUser.cgi" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="submit" value="Submit">
<p>$error_message</p>
<TABLE BORDER="1" align="center">
<TR>
<TD>Name</TD>
<TD> <input type="text" name="User_Name" value="$User_Name"></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>Password</TD>
<TD colspan="2"><input type="password" name="User_Password" value="$User_Password"
size="20" maxlength="15" /></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>Role</TD>
<TD>"HERE I NEED A COMBOBOX"</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>Permission</TD>
<TD><input type="radio" name="User_Permission"
value="Add"$User_Permission_Add_sel>Add<input type="radio" name="User_Permission"
value="Edit"$User_Permission_Edit_sel>Edit<input type="radio"
name="User_Permission" value="Delete"$User_Permission_Delete_sel>Delete<input
type="radio" name="User_Permission" value="View"$User_Permission_View_sel>View</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>Department</TD>
<TD colspan="2"> <select name="User_Department" MULTIPLE
SIZE=4>$User_Department_html</select></TD>
</TR>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD align="center" colspan="2">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="ADD">
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE
</form>
</body></html>
END_HTML
}
In place of
"HERE I NEED A COMBOBOX"you have to write :However, you retrieve parameters within your
sub display_formbut you’ve never passed any.