On Sunday 06 December 2009 10:24:31 am Adam Jimerson wrote:
> I am working on a registration page and there for want it to show the
> user errors it has found with their input. I have two subroutines in
> my code, the first one prints out the form, also takes an array with
> error descriptions that is passed by the other subroutine. The other
> subroutine takes the user input and verifies it, any errors that it
> finds it pushes into an array called @errors and passes that back to
> the first subroutine. The problem is it doesn't work right when I
> run it from the command line this is what I get:
>
> vend...@seserver:~/public_html/AmeriVista> perl -cT register.cgi
> [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: Illegal character in
> prototype for main::form_verify : @user at register.cgi line 43.
> [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: Scalar found where operator
> expected at register.cgi line 93, near "$user"
> [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi:(Missing semicolon on
> previous line?)
> [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: main::form_verify() called
> too early to check prototype at register.cgi line 36.
> Content-type: text/html
>
> Software error:
> syntax error at register.cgi line 93, near "$user"
> Global symbol "$GoodMail" requires explicit package name at
> register.cgi line 93.
> register.cgi had compilation errors.
>
>
> For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error
> message
> and the time and date of the error.
>
>
> [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: syntax error at register.cgi
> line 93, near "$user"
> [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: Global symbol "$GoodMail"
> requires explicit package name at register.cgi line 93.
> [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: register.cgi had compilation
> errors.
>
> I have attached my code for the script, if someone could look at it
> and give some ideas as to how to make this work or a better way then
> please do
You are trying to use a local scoped var as a global , line 93 $GoodMail is
used out of its scope ,
if ( $user[5] =~ /^([...@\w.]+)$/ ) {
$user[5] = $1;
eval {
my $GoodMail = Email::Valid->address( -address =>
"$user[5]", -mxcheck =>
1);
return;
}
#push @errors, "Error: Double check your email address"
if $@;
$user[5] = $GoodMail;
}
it should read
if ( $user[5] =~ /^([...@\w.]+)$/ ) {
my $GoodMail ;
$user[5] = $1;
eval {
$GoodMail = Email::Valid->address( -address =>
"$user[5]", -mxcheck => 1);
return;
}
#push @errors, "Error: Double check your email address"
if $@;
$user[5] = $GoodMail;
}
or even declare it up with the other globals if you want , but the way you
have it now it is out of scope after that eval { } block completes.
there may be other errors , fix that one first and try it again and see what
else pops up.
have fun
Greg
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