I have a web form whose user input I want to recieve in email form when the user clicks on submit. I'm working in a windows environment and using apache. I know how to do this in php, but can someone show me how to do this in perl 5? A simple html form and cgi script example would be very helpful. Thank you.

There are a number of mail modules on cpan that are used for sending email. Most of the time I use MIME::Lite but occasionally I use Net::SMTP which is a core module.

MIME::Lite
http://search.cpan.org/author/RJBS/...

Net::SMTP
http://search.cpan.org/author/GBARR...

However, if this is a web form used on the Internet, you should make sure you correctly setup the form and validation of the fields so that your form doesn't become a spam relay.

thanks, but where can I find examples where I'm getting the information from a form? Is there an array in perl like $_REQUEST in PHP?

Are these modules built in with an installation of perl? I'm using XAMPP. If they aren't what folder am I supposed to download these modules to?