Well fellow monks, here I am again. Seeking help.

I'm having trouble with a script I'm writing. It's supposed to upload files using CGI, but it's not working. This is my first time attempting this, so it's probably something simple. Here goes.

The Code

if ($event = $cgi->param('event')) {
    $description = $cgi->param('description');
    $fh = $cgi->upload('file');
    my $file4desc = $fh;
    $file4desc =~ s/\.\w+$/\.txt/;
    if (-e "$event/$file4desc") {
        print "There's already a file under that name. Please rename t
+he file and try again.";    
    } else {
        open FILE, ">$event/$fh";
        while (<$fh>) {
            print FILE $_;
        }
        close FILE;
        open DESC, ">$event/$file4desc";
        ($sec,$min,$hour,$date,$mon,$year,$wday,$ydat,$isdst) = localt
+ime();
        $year += 1900;
        $mon++;
        print DESC "$description added $mon/$date/$year by $username";
        close DESC;
        print "Uploaded $fh";
    }
} else {
    my @events = ('event1,event2,event3');
    print "<form method='POST' action='index.pl' enctype='multipart/fo
+rm-data'>\n";
    print "<input type='hidden' name='node' value='upload'>\n";
    print "<h2>Upload</h2>\n";
    print "<b>Event:</b><br>\n";
    print "<select name='event'>\n";
    foreach $event (@events) {
        my $presentable = $event;
        $presentable =~ s/_/ /g;
        print "<option value='$event'>$presentable\n\n";
    }
    print "</select><p>\n";
    print "<b>File:</b><br>\n";
    print $cgi->filefield(-name => 'file');
    print "<p><b>Description:</b><br>\n";
    print "<textarea name='description' rows=6 cols=50></textarea><br>
+\n";
    print "<input type='submit' value='upload'>\n";
    print "</form>";
}

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This doesn't work, for some reason it quites after calling $cgi->upload Does anyone know why this happens? (For those wondering, this isn't the whole script.)

- p u n k k i d
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