You can't just mix code and data like that. Even PHP has markers to separate them :)

Try printing your html: 

## Previous code to find x coordinates, y coordinates
## and website names

my @x_points;
my @y_points;
my @websites;

my $secondcount;

print q(
 <IMG SRC="figure.gif" USEMAP="#mymap">
 <MAP NAME="mymap">
);

 for ($secondcount=1; $secondcount <= $webpage_no; $secondcount++) {
     print qq( <AREA SHAPE=circle COORDS="'$x_points[$secondcount],$y_
+points[$secondcount],1" HREF="'$websites[$secondcount]"> );
 }

print q( </MAP> );

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Accessing an array element still needs a sigil: x_points[$secondcount] doesn't work, you meant to say $x_points[$secondcount].

Oh, and why do you start counting at 1?

In reply to Re: Creating an image map using Perl code by rhesa
in thread Creating an image map using Perl code by lampros21_7

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