Hi, I'm new at perl and am having some problems with uploading a file. I have the routine embedded in some code that makes a call to the database (which determines whether or not to upload a file). However the file won't upload. I have written (copied & modified) another program, upload.cgi and upload.htm, which work, but still no luck in this file. Is there a way to call a subroutine with the subroutine being in another file? Or can anyone see what is wrong here? Below is my code:

This is what is in the beginning of the file:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use DBI;
use CGI qw(:standard);

 and somewhere farther down:

<font size="2") #UPLOAD THE FILE/PICTURE
open(IN, ">$file");
binmode IN;
open(OUT, ">/the/path/to/the/file/$AdsID.jpg");
while (read IN, $data, 1)
{
print OUT $data;
}
close IN;

Firstly, $AdsID.jpg has a problem (it's a variable from a database), but even with a hardcoded file name I still have problems. The problem being that file "copies" up but is of size 0. Any ideas?

Thanks
Cheryl

In reply to Upload an image file by Anonymous Monk

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