retaining login info.

[garskoci]

In a nutshell, I am building a web application that is made up of html and perl/cgi. The perl accesses mysql. When a user brings up the page, they will need to log in. Which is basically the mysql ID and password. The account is verified and a select query is run to display some detail data. From here the user can decide to add/delete/update data which is written to the db. My question is; after I capture the id and password, how can I access the database after my initial query using the same id & password that was entered? I'm assuming that I'll ned to log into the database each time that I run a query. Each query type(add, update, delete) will have its own cgi.

[ACJavascript]

Have your tried using Cookies.. Mabye creating a cookie with username and passowrd,, then calling the username and password from the cookie when going to another script.

[garskoci]

Something that I didn't mention..... I'm new at web programming. I'll have to read up on the cookie thing. Thanks.