CGI Error

thevoid has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all, As you can see I am in the very early stages of learning to use the Perl CGI module. I have this little script (learning about post and get)

use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

my $cgi = CGI->new();

print $cgi->header(),
      $cgi->start_html(),
      $cgi->start_form({
        -action => "http://example.com/favourites.html",
        -method => "get",
});
print $cgi->p('What is your favourite colour?
              <input type="text" name="colour" /><br/>
              What is your favourite food?
              <input type="text" name="food" /><br/>
              <input type="submit" '),
              $cgi->end_form,
              $cgi->end_html();
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which will work fine when fatalsToBrowser is not enabled, but when it is I get this error

Can't locate object method "new" via package "CGI" at...
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I do know about perldoc and the perl faq, have had a look at perltoot but am still not really sure... hoping someone will be able to easily explain this error to me. Thanks ; )

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Re: CGI Error by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Mar 01, 2007 at 20:30 UTC
You forgot to `use CGI`. `use warnings; use strict; use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); use CGI; # <-- need this to use CGI ...` [download] meh.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: CGI Error by thevoid (Scribe) on Mar 01, 2007 at 20:38 UTC
oh dear, thanks very much... I'm just going by the examples given in the tutorial I'm working through at the moment and they've done it the way I posted - I assumed that the one mention of CGI covered all ta again	[reply]
Re^3: CGI Error by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Mar 02, 2007 at 15:56 UTC
Not a problem at all, once you start working more with CGI and modules in general, you'll get a better knack for what modules are needed for what :-) meh.	[reply]
Re: CGI Error by scorpio17 (Canon) on Mar 02, 2007 at 14:56 UTC
Not to quibble - but since you're new to CGI.pm, note that you could write it this way: `use strict; use CGI qw/:standard/; print header, start_html, start_form, "What's your favorite color?", textfield('color'), p, "What's your favorite food?", textfield('food'), p, submit, end_form, hr, "\n"; if (param) { print "Favorite color: ", param('color'),p, "Favorite food: ", param('food'), "\n"; } print end_html;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]