Okay, I've been looking high and low for this, and I simply cannot find any solution to my problem...

I am in the process of creating an album review-database, and I need to give the users the ability to upload covers for the reviews.

The problem is, after creating a file upload CGI in a separate script, to test the functionality (this is my first time), and getting it to work, I attempted to turn this into a subroutine. But it didn't quite work.

The problem is, I get an undefined value in hash error with the uploadInfo method (which I can't find documented in CGI.pm, I have to go look around in the manpage). What gives?

#this is how I call the sub:
$filename = &uploadcover(param('cover'), upload('cover'), uploadInfo(p
+aram('cover'))->{'Content-Type'});

#this is how the sub looks:
sub uploadcover
{
    ##############################################################
    # usage: $filename = &upload($filename, $filehandle, $type); #
    # will accept the upload of the file,                        #
    # and return what filename it was assigned                   #
    ##############################################################
    
    my ($filename, $filehandle, $type) = ($_[0], $_[1], $_[2]);
    
    #if there exists a file with this name, we give the uploaded file 
+a new name
    while (-e $filename)
    {
        $filename =~ /(\d*)(\w+.\w+)/;
        $filename = ($1+1)."$2";
    }
    
    #if this was not a correct filetype, generate an error
    unless ($type eq "image/jpeg" || $type eq "image/gif")
    {
        die "JPEG or GIF files only!";
    }
    
    #these lines write the filedata to the filename
    open (COVERFILE, ">$filename") or die "$!";
    binmode(COVERFILE);
    while (<$filehandle>)
    {
        print COVERFILE;
    }
    close(COVERFILE);
    
    #returning the filename for storing in the database
    return $filename;
}
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