Re: Info needed...

From: James Edward Gray II (james_at_grayproductions.net)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:06:44 -0500
To: "Cristi Ocolisan" <cristi@wiq.ro>

On Apr 29, 2004, at 8:51 AM, Cristi Ocolisan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to write a single CGI script that can return several different
> pages
> to the browser. For instance, I want a single CGI script for
> administering a
> database of products. The script will be called to display the form to
> add a
> product, to process the add-product form, to display a list of
> products to
> delete, to process the delete-product form, to display a list of
> product to
> edit, to display a form of the product's attributes for the user to
> change,
> and to process the edit-product form.
>
> I do not know yet to write such a script and want to learn. Can you
> point me
> to some good tutorials?

I'm a book person myself and any good book on CGI should at least get
you going. You could always tried the CGI module's documentation as
well:

perldoc CGI

For the database side of things, you'll need the DBI. Grab it from the
CPAN.

James