syntax error at enquiry02.pl line 25, near "$mailer open"

This happened because you said: 

$mailer open(\%headers);

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when what was needed was: 
$mailer->open(\%headers);

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open, by itself, is a function defined in the core of perl, used for 'opening' files for reading, writing, etcetera. It wants a file handle, a filename, and possibly a mode, but you gave it a hashref. (And preceded it with $mailer by itself, which is puzzling at best or a syntax error at worst). But $mailer->open() is something else entirely. Because you said my $mailer = new Mail::Mailer;, $mailer is now an object of type Mail::Mailer. The module Mail::Mailer actually defines a routine named open() - same name, seemingly as the core function open() - but if you say $mailer->open(), perl looks at the type of $mailer, sees that it's Mail::Mailer, and uses the open() function defined in that module instead.

You should check out some doc, like: 

perldoc perlboot
perldoc perltoot
Look elsewher on this site for tutorials on this subject as well.

Also, your code still has a problem. Specifically, 

my $body =
(
print $mailer  $query->param('Title'),
print $mailer  $query->param('Name'),
print $mailer  $query->param('Position'),
print $mailer  $query->param('School'),
print $mailer  $query->param('Address'),
print $mailer  $query->param('Suburb'),
print $mailer  $query->param('State'),
print $mailer  $query->param('PCode'),
print $mailer  $query->param('Email'),
print $mailer  $query->param('Tel'),
print $mailer  $query->param('Fax'),
print $mailer  $query->param('Comments'),
);

print $mailer $body;

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is wrong. I suggest you go to your command line, issue: 
perldoc Mail::Mailer
and read what comes up,

(All code given here is UNTESTED unless otherwise stated.)

--Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Software Error: Close.pm by bobn
in thread Software Error: Close.pm by Nickd_69

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