Hi Kim,
I hope you don't take any of this personally. It's certainly not meant that way.
--- Kim Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/perl-w
There should be a space after the -w.
> print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
There should be a space after the colon. This is one of the reasons why CGI.pm is
preferable:
use CGI qw(:standard);
print header;
> read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
> @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
> foreach $pair (@pairs) {
> ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
> $value =~ tr/+/ /;
> $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
> $FORM{$name} = $value;
> }
Numerous bugs here. Rather than go through all of them, I'll just post a link to my
course where
I detail them:
http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/lesson_two/lesson_two.html
> # where is the mail program?
> $mailprog = 'usr/lib/sendmail';
Without the leading slash, isn't this going to be relative to the current working
directory?
I'd also recommend that you use strict. Here are a couple of useful links:
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=87628
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=108286
Cheers,
Ovid
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Web Programming with Perl: http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/
Silence Is Evil: http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/philosophy/decency.txt
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