[NEWBIE-Question] Processing Menus

2001-10-31 Thread me
Hello all, I am trying to process a menu option but for some reason perl causes the value to come up blank can anyone help? This is only hapening on the menu items. Is there a trick to sending drop down menus? TNX, Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [NEWBIE-Question] Processing Menus

2001-10-31 Thread Curtis Poe
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to process a menu option but for some reason perl causes the > value to come up blank can anyone help? This is only hapening on the menu > items. > > Is there a trick to sending drop down menus? > > TNX, > > Mike Mike, What do you mea

Re: [NEWBIE-Question] Processing Menus

2001-10-31 Thread Bogus email
Sorry bout that... I do mean drop-downs from HTML. What I want to do is have it email me all the info, which it does email me. Everything but the dropdown menu information. see attached. Thanks again... Mike "Curtis Poe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PR

Re: [NEWBIE-Question] Processing Menus

2001-11-01 Thread Etienne Marcotte
The CGI (or other parsing sub) reads the data selected from the drop down, which is in the "value" part of each tag. option 1 option 2 option 3 then in your param{'dropdown'}you should have 1, 2 or 3 depending on the option that he choose. What are you using to parse the data? CGI.pm ? That

Re: [NEWBIE-Question] Processing Menus

2001-11-01 Thread Mike
I am using cgi-lib.pl this is the script that I am using. #!/usr/bin/perl #location to your log file. $logfile = "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/log/logfile.log"; #location of our sendmail program. $mailprog = "/usr/sbin/sendmail"; #path to cgi-lib.pl. $library = "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin"; requ

Re: [NEWBIE-Question] Processing Menus

2001-11-01 Thread Mike
I am using cgi-lib.pl this is the script that I am using. #!/usr/bin/perl #location to your log file. $logfile = "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/log/logfile.log"; #location of our sendmail program. $mailprog = "/usr/sbin/sendmail"; #path to cgi-lib.pl. $library = "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin"; requ

Re: [NEWBIE-Question] Processing Menus

2001-11-01 Thread Mike
I am using cgi-lib.pl this is the script that I am using. #!/usr/bin/perl #location to your log file. $logfile = "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/log/logfile.log"; #location of our sendmail program. $mailprog = "/usr/sbin/sendmail"; #path to cgi-lib.pl. $library = "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin"; requ

Re: [NEWBIE-Question] Processing Menus

2001-11-01 Thread Etienne Marcotte
By the way I had a unknown host with me.com... Try this, if it works, it's in your cgi-lib.pl the problem.. ( I removed comments and added some where I made mods) #!/usr/bin/perl use CGI; # use the CGI module to parse instead of your cgi-lib... use strict; #always use strict, it's a good coding

Re: [NEWBIE-Question] Processing Menus

2001-11-01 Thread me
Something must not be reading right. I still get the same result from the category. A blank. Everything else is there though. Mike Etienne Marcotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > By the way I had a unknown host with me.com... > > Try this, i

Re: [NEWBIE-Question] Processing Menus

2001-11-01 Thread Etienne Marcotte
can you forward the html part again? I will test the exact same code on my machine, I'm sure it's gonna work, I just checked the part of my script that reads data from my forms and it works fine... My netscrap just converted to text and the only thing I see is the line and the text Etienne [EMA

Re: [NEWBIE-Question] Processing Menus

2001-11-01 Thread me
Etienne Marcotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > can you forward the html part again? > I will test the exact same code on my machine, I'm sure it's gonna work, I just > checked the part of my script that reads data from my forms and it works fi

Re: [NEWBIE-Question] Processing Menus

2001-11-01 Thread Etienne Marcotte
Damn I'm stupid You wrote name=Category and you're trying to find $in{'category'} note the capital C That's where your error is.. You may use your cgi-lib it's fine:-) Etienne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Etienne Marcotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > can you forwa

Re: [NEWBIE-Question] Processing Menus

2001-11-01 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Etienne Marcotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may use your cgi-lib it's fine:-) Aside from the fact that cgi-lib.pl is not actively maintained, it has a few other problems: http://www.bayview.com/training/mindsrc-bof/1997-04-24/pros-cons.html Cheers, Curtis "Ovid" Poe = Senior Pro