I'm having a bit of trouble with some CGI...I know that it is opening the stuff correctly, and it should be printing it, but it isn't for some reason, even if I go to main.cgi?link=news . All I get is "PieFart.". Does anyone have any idea as to what's going wrong? I know that the open and print for $pagerep works, as putting it into a separate program worked fine for me...Here's my code, see if you can figure it out:
use CGI qw(:standard);
print header();

my $loginoutlink='';
my $loginout='';
my $usersilver='';
my $ore='';
my $userhp='';
my $usermana='';
my $userlvl='';
my $userexp='';
my $userexpnext='';
my $pagetext='';
my $pagetitle='';
my $mainpagename='';
my $specificpagename='';
my $pagerep='';
my $pageaction='';
$pageaction=param('link');
my $textpage='';
if($pageaction eq 'news') {
    open(NEWS,"news.html");
    while(<>) {
        $pagetext .= $_;
    }
    close NEWS;
    open(PAGE,"template.htmlt");
    while(<PAGE>) {
        $pagerep .=$_;
    }
    close PAGE;
    $pagerep=~s/PAGETITLE/KnightScape News/; 
    $pagerep=~s/MAINPAGENAME/KnightScape News-Your TableSpoon of Knigh
+tScape Info!/;
    $pagerep=~s/SPECIFICPAGENAME/Recent News/;
    $pagerep=~s/PAGETEXT/$pagetext/;
}elsif($pageaction eq 'records') {
    
}elsif($pageaction eq 'quests') {
    
}elsif($pageaction eq 'help') {
    
}elsif($pageaction eq 'ask') {
    
}elsif($pageaction eq 'login') {
    
}elsif($pageaction eq 'logout') {
    
} else {
    
}
print "$pagerep";
print "PieFart.";

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Thanks,
Spidy
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