A long while back I hired programmers from rentacoder to write scripts for me and now when I look back at them I noticed how screwed I was *sigh*. My programmer evidently didn't hear about using strict so I spent the last three hours making all the needed changes (there's a bug somewhere that I'm trying to trap). I've come across a question, how can you make a variable inside of a loop constant? 
unless ($title) {
$errorcount = 1;
$error_title = "<br><font color='red'>Please enter a title.</font>";
}
unless ($url) {
$errorcount = 1;
$error_url = "<br><font color='red'>Please enter a valid address.</fon
+t>";
}
unless ($description) {
$errorcount = 1;
$error_description = "<br><font color='red'>Please enter a description
+.</font>";
}
unless ($keywords) {
$errorcount = 1;
$error_keywords = "<br><font color='red'>Please enter some keywords.</
+font>";
}

if ($errorcount) {
print errors blah blah
}

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$errorcount is only initialized and defined in each unless loop so by the time it gets to if ($errorcount) { that data is lost. My question is how do I keep $errorcount's data or is there a better way to write this?

In reply to Constant variables by esoteric neonate

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