Re: Showing errors with user input

2009-12-10 Thread John W. Krahn

Adam Jimerson wrote:

On Dec 7, 12:43 pm, g...@lazymountain.com (Greg Jetter) wrote:

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.


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[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.


Ok well I have corrected a couple more errors with the script and it
now has no errors during compile and runs until it goes to report
problems it has found back to the user:

#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use warnings;
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use DBI;
use Email::Valid;
BEGIN {
$|=1;
use CGI::Carp('fatalsToBrowser');
}
delete @ENV { 'IFS', 'CDPATH', 'ENV', 'BASH_ENV'};

my @user; #Here @user deals with: first name, last name, username,
password, CLSCC Email, and Student Number
my @errors;
my $dbh;

sub db_connect {
use constant username => 'secret';
use constant password => 'secret';
my $database = 'database name';
my $server = 'localhost';
 my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$database;host=$server;port=3306" ||
die "Couldn't Connect to the Database: $!";


The string you are assigning to $dsn is *always* true so the die() is 
superfluous, it will *never* execute.




my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, username, password, {RaiseError
=> 1}) || die "couldn't authenticate to the Database: $!";
}

db_connect ();
print header;
print start_html (-title=>"AmeriVista Event Logging",
-author=>'vend...@vendion.net');
print "Registration Form\n";
print "\n";

if (param) {
form_verify (@user);
} else {
print start_form;
print_form ();
print end_form, "\n";
}

sub form_verify {
$user[0] = param('FirstName');
 if ( $user[0] =~ /^([-\w.]+)$/ )  {
$user[0] = $1;
} else {
push @errors, "First Names should only contain
letters\n";
}
$user[1] = param('LastName');
if ( $user[1] =~ /^([...@\w.]+)$/ ) {
$user[1] = $1;
} else {
push @errors, "Last Name Should Only Contain
Letters\n";
}
$user[2] = param('Username');
if ( $u

Re: Showing errors with user input

2009-12-10 Thread John W. Krahn

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.


Line 43 is:

sub form_verify (@user) {

The error is because (@user) is not a valid prototype.  Just change that to:

sub form_verify {


[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?)


You get this message because line 91 does not end with a semicolon like 
it is supposed to.


eval {
			my $GoodMail = Email::Valid->address( -address => "$user[5]", 
-mxcheck => 1);

return;
}

Should be:

eval {
			my $GoodMail = Email::Valid->address( -address => "$user[5]", 
-mxcheck => 1);

return;
};


[Sun Dec  6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: main::form_verify() called 
too early to check prototype at register.cgi line 36.


You get this message because you are using a subroutine with a prototype 
before you declare that subroutine and prototype.  Just remove the 
invalid prototype.  This is the same prototype that is giving you 
problems on line 43.





John
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Re: Showing errors with user input

2009-12-10 Thread Adam Jimerson
Greg Jetter wrote:

> 
> start by  checking the content of @errors inside the print_form sub.
> with a print statement and exit.
> 
> 
> Greg

Thanks for that, now that is working correctly I guess I didn't need to 
go through the array like I was trying.
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