First real attempt at a DB other than SDBM and came across a problem. Nothing is being saved to the database (it prints to screen one time then after you refresh or add something else it's gone).

This is a real short snippet of the code I'm using, anyone have suggestions?


use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX;
use CGI qw(:standard start_table end_table);

use lib "";

use Tie::IxHash;

my $columns = 50;
use Text::Wrap qw( wrap $columns );

use DB_File;

my %chat;
my %chatorder;
my @words = ();

my $chat = "chat.dbm";     # location of database
my $file = "count.txt";    # location of count file


unlink "chat";
tie %chat, "DB_File", "chat", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0644, $DB_HASH
  or die "Cannot open file 'fruit': $!\n";

tie %chat, "Tie::IxHash"
  or die "Cannot tie %chat to Tie::IxHash : $!\n";
tie %chatorder, "Tie::IxHash"
  or die "Cannot tie %chatorder to Tie::IxHash : $!\n";



print header, start_html;

my $num;
foreach ( keys(%chat) ) {
    $num++;
}
print "DB keys: $num";

my $name    = param('name');
my $message = param('message');
my $cnt;

if (param) {
    if ($name) {
        if ($message) {


            my $keeptime = join ( '~',  $hour, $min,     $sec );
            my $info     = join ( '~~', $name, $message, $keeptime );

            $chat{$cnt} = $info;
        }
        else {
            print "Message was missing, data not sent.<br>";
        }
    }
    else {
        print "Name was missing, data not sent.<br>";
    }
}



foreach ( reverse keys(%chat) ) {
    $add++;

    if ( $add <= 10 ) {

        $chatorder{$_} = $chat{$_};

    }
}

foreach ( reverse keys(%chatorder) ) {
    my ( $name, $message, $time ) = split /~~/, $chatorder{$_};


    $message = wrap( '', '', $message );
    print Tr(
        td(
            { -width => '700' },
            "<font color=blue>&lt;$name @ $time&gt;</font>$message"
        )
      ),

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