Thanks, Andrew. That did it. It's working now. :) :) :) Thanks everyone for all your help.
- Mike -----Original Message----- From: Rob Benton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 4:38 PM To: Mike Butler Cc: Hughes, Andrew; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Problems getting a simple form to work. Give this a shot and see if it errors: use CGI; my $query = new CGI; my %params = $query->Vars; my $username = $params{'username'}; On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:29, Mike Butler wrote: > Thanks, Andrew. I added CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); to the script. That's > a big help. The error message that I get now is: > Software error: > Undefined subroutine &main::param called at simpleform.cgi line 6. > > Line 6 is my $username = param('username'); > > Any idea why param is undefined? > > Thanks, > > - Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hughes, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Problems getting a simple form to work. > > > I would also add > > use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); > > along with > > use CGI; > use strict; > > This way your errors will get displayed in your browser. > > Also, check with your hosting company to make sure that your path to perl is > correct (ex. is it #!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT vs. #!/usr/bin/perl -wT) > > Andrew > > -----Original Message----- > From: Li Ngok Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 2:37 PM > To: Mike Butler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Problems getting a simple form to work. > > > [..] > > #!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT > > use CGI; > > use strict; > > > > $username = param('username'); > > should be : > my $username = param('username'); > > because you've using strict; > > > > > print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"; > For what I know, I would write as "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > > > print "You entered: $username\n"; > > > > The permissions look like this: > > > > Permissions for cgi-bin: rwxr-xr-x > > Permissions for simpleform.cgi rwxr-xr-x > > Permissions for simpleform.htm: rwxr-xr-x > > > > I have changed <form method="post" action="../cgi-bin/simpleform.pl"> to > > <form method="post" action="http://www.mikyo.com/cgi-bin/simpleform.cgi";>. > > > > 2 suggestion here : > > 1. use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser'; # the die message will goto your > browser. > 2. Try simpler script, so you will know if your form is going to a right > place : > > #!/usr/bin/perl > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > print "Hello world"; > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
