[thelist] Form question

[Warden, Matt]

> I have a form which requests a name.  I want to use the contents of that
> form to call a perl script.  I don't want a second page, requesting the user
> to click a link to run the perl script.  Ideally, they would think they're
> submitting their name, but really, they're just running the script.  Now,
> the script needs to be called like so
>
> script.pl?name= ...
>
> followed by the name the user enters into the form.  If I type in Mich, and
> click the submit button, I want the script.pl to be run with name=Mich as
> the parameter.
>
> Is this at all possible?

Yup.

<form action="script.pl" method="get">
<input type="text" name="name" />
</form>




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