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Generating a HTTP POST request with dynamic contents

  POST 'http://www.perl.org/survey.cgi',
       Content_Type => 'form-data',
       Content      => [ name  => 'Gisle Aas',
                         email => 'gisle@aas.no',
                         gender => 'M',
                         born   => '1964',
                         init   => ["$ENV{HOME}/.profile"],
                       ]
 

You mean something like this?

  POST $url,
       Content_Type => 'form-data',
       Content      => [ name  => $name,
                         email => $email,
                         gender => $gender,
                         born   => $dob,
                         init   => ["$ENV{HOME}/.profile"],
                       ]
 

reply to httppost
We'll really need a little more context as to the data structures you'll be working with.

reply to httppost
No, I don't know how many items I will have for Content. For example, I may have "name" and "email" only, but "gender", "born" and "init" won't be available. The script need to be flexible enough to handle unknown number of contents.

reply to httppost
Can you use a foreach loop and test for possible keys?

reply to httppost
You trying to do like facebook(i think) or something, click the link that then shows the next field if you want it? IE:
name:
Email:

link-add your address
link-add your website

If thats what your doing, Id just render them all to the page, just display:none, and give the fields the database column names so you could do a foreach like suggested. Something like

foreach($_POST as $k=>$v){
if(!empty($v)) $sql = '`'.$k.'`="'.$v.'",'; 
}
 

In the above example, don't forget to sanitize $k and $v..

reply to httppost
Yup and it would be $sql.=whatever or it would just keep rewriting.