You might like to consider accessing the parameters using the hash. When you start using Perl's OO features you will find that that is standard technique anyway. Consider:

use strict;
use warnings;

foo( "hi", "apoinv", "slkjhfp", "876", "poi", "asdf", "sdf", "there" )
+;
print "\n";
foo( {
    flags => "hi",
    img => "apoinv",
    name => "slkjhfp",
    big => "876",
    gallery => "poi",
    page => "asdf",
    caption => "sdf",
    num => "there" });


sub foo {
    my %args;
    
    if (ref $_[0] eq "HASH") {
        %args = %{$_[0]};
    } else {
        @args{qw(flags img name big gallery page caption num)} = @_;
    }
    
    print "$_:\t$args{$_}\n" for sort keys %args;
}

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Prints:

big:    876
caption:    sdf
flags:    hi
gallery:    poi
img:    apoinv
name:    slkjhfp
num:    there
page:    asdf

big:    876
caption:    sdf
flags:    hi
gallery:    poi
img:    apoinv
name:    slkjhfp
num:    there
page:    asdf

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