Ok I have a script to upload a file and I'm trying to name it by using the inputs from the form as the file name, but for some reason it just gives me a completely blank screen. The html file is at www.tdecsucks.com/upload.html and the cgi part is below. I've tryed all the obvious things, I've even tryed renaming the file after its saved as a temp file. I know the problem lies when I use a scalar as the filename, and yet I've seen it like this in two books. If anyone has had this problem or knows how I can go around this, I'd be in debt to you for life! 

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

my $file = param ('uploadfile');
my $info = uploadInfo ($file);
my $type = $info -> {'Content-Type'};
my $name = param ('name');
my $course = param ('course');
my $lastname = param ('lastname');
my $term = param ('term');
my $description = param ('description');
my $filename = "$name$course$lastname$term$description";

if ($file) {
    open (UPLOAD, ">/var/www/uploads/$filename") || Error ();

    my ($data, $length, $chunk);
    while ($chunk = read ($file, $data, 1024)) {
        print UPLOAD $data;
        $length += $chunk;
        if ($length > 5120000) {
            print "That file is too big. The limit is 5 Megs.";
            exit;
            }
        }
    close (UPLOAD);
    
    print "<p>You uploaded <b>$file</b> which had a MIME type of <b>$t
+ype</b>.";
    print "<p>Your filename is <b>$filename</b>.";

} else {
        print "No file was chosen.";    
}

sub Error {
    print "Couldn't open temporary file: $!";
    exit;
    }

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