I've probably wandered a bit from the original suggestion, but I didn't have much luck with 'unless'. I'm better with 'if' and the following statments work on my local PC, giving me the file name when the file exists and DefaultPhoto when the file is not present.(-e worked, while -f did not.)

$path = "/dir_name/sub_dir_name/";
      #Determine if the image file exists
        my $fn = $path.$Data{dr_id}.'.jpg';
        if (-e $fn) {
            my $image = $fn;
                     }
        else {
               $image = $path."DefaultPhoto.gif";

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When I post it to my server, it doesn't seem to find the file. It returns the requested person's information, but returns the DefaultPhoto.jpg even when the image file exists. I thought perhaps the problem was in my path name somewhere, so I printed $fn and $image to the browser. I'm pulling a person that should have a photo and I get the following back:

 File is: /dir_name/sub_dir_name/BOWG.jpg
Image is: /dir_name/sub_dir_name/DefaultPhoto.gif

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The browser displays $image (DefaultPhoto.jpg) and returns the link in the HTML below

<TR><TD><img src=/dir_name/sub_dir_name/DefaultPhoto.gif></TD></TR>

So, I'm stumped. I am missing something but I can't see it. Is there some reason I can't actually check the file's existence on the server when I coming through a CGI script? Is there another way to do this?
TIA,
WB

In reply to Re: Re: CGI-SQL-HTML-Display "no image" by WhiteBird
in thread CGI-SQL-HTML-Display "no image" by WhiteBird

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