Hello Monks,

I have a database that contains shipment information. Right now, I want to show two fields: customer_id and tracking_number.

I have an HTML form where the customer will enter their customer id number. The form element name is custid.

I'm trying to write a script that will take the customer id number which was entered into the form and passed to the database table to extract the information only for that customer.

When I run the script, I'm receiving a compilation error and I'm not sure what the problem could be.

Below is the code for the script.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.
#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw

use CGI qw(:standard);
use strict;
use lib qw(/export/ext2/www/bartellmachinery/library);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI qw(:standard escape escapeHTML);
use WebDB;

my $cust_ref;             #reference to customer


#@PAGE_START
my $dbh = WebDB::connect ();
my $page = h3 ({-align=>"center"}, ("Order Tracking System"));
#@PAGE_START

# get the form parameters
$cust_ref->{custid} = param ("custid");

my $choice = lc (param ("choice"));    

if ($choice eq "submit")            # customer submitted ID number
{
    $page .= get_customer ($dbh, $cust_ref);
}
else
{
    $page .= p (escapeHTML ("Logic error, unknown choice: $choice"));
}


print header (), start_html (-title => "Order Tracking System", -bgcol
+or => "white");

sub get_customer
{
my ($dbh, $cust_ref) = @_;
my ($page);

my $sth = $dbh->prepare ("SELECT * FROM Shipments WHERE customer_id = 
+?");
$sth->execute ($cust_ref->{custid});

my @rows;

while (my $order_ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref ())
{
push @rows, Tr ({-style=>"font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"},
         td ({-colspan => "2"}, ""),
         td ({-colspan => "3", -align=>"right", -style=>"font-weight: 
+700;"}, "Customer ID:"),
       td (escapeHTML ($order_ref->{customer_id)),
                                      );
   Tr ({-style=>"font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"},
         td ({-colspan => "2"}, ""),
         td ({-colspan => "3", -align=>"right", -style=>"font-weight: 
+700;"}, "Tracking Number:"),
       td (escapeHTML ($order_ref->{tracking_number)),
                                      );

$page .=  table ({-border => 1, -align => "center"},
return ($page);
$sth->finish();   
}

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