I haven't given your code more than a cursory glance. Sorry. A few things popped out. On the search results limiting thing, the quick and dirty way would be to use a for block. You could also easily set up a "next ten results, previous ten results" button with a for loop and form parameters.

I was recently in your boat (being new to perl), and I'm sure you've probably heard it, but you should learn CGI.pm. It makes handling form parameters infinitely more reliable and easier. Because you're using some custom module for form parsing, your complete code isn't here.

Another trick I love for debugging is to use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/; at the top of your scripts. It will give you good info sometimes, without having to go to the error_log.

Get the O'Reilly "Learning Perl" (the llama book). It's excellent. It will help make you a far better perl coder. Thanks merlyn!

In reply to Re: Search engine result limiting (was: help!!) by Hero Zzyzzx
in thread Search engine result limiting (was: help!!) by bobbyboy

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