On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 08:46 +0000, Marcus Claesson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I wonder if there is any way in Perl CGI that you can select an item in
> a popup menu and execute a command WITHOUT having to click a submit
> button? For instance, this is what I want to do:
> 
> I have a popup_menu with names of several values.
> print $cgi->popup_menu(-name=>'list',
>                       -id=>'list',
>                       -values=>['L1','L2','L3']);
> 
> As soon as the user selects a value I want it to be automatically
> printed out.
> 
> if ($cgi->param('list')) {
>    print "Selected value: ".$cgi->param('list');
> }
> 
> This is a very basic thing if you allow a submit button, but I don't
> want to do that. Any ideas?


This might be CGI::Ajax.   I have hand coded my ajax so far, it requires
javascript knowledge and a real clue stick (mastering ajax on
developerworks was my starting point).

-- 
Ken Foskey
FOSS developer


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