----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DBI List" <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]
