Re: Passing Parameters Help!

Sorry, but your code is a mess, and no fun to debug.

If you want to get the dir in which the script lies, use FindBin].

If you call header() from CGI, you should actually send HTML - that starts with a doctype, <html> etc. - not with <br>.

If you want to use proper HTML templates, consider using HTML::Template, Template, HTML::Template::Compiled or the like.

If you want to escape "dangerous" characters, I recommend HTML::Entities.

I assume that doesn't fix your original problem, but it might clean up your code significantly.

BTW you are comparing "Insert" with "insert" - that will never work.

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Re^2: Passing Parameters Help! by blazar (Canon) on Jul 10, 2007 at 22:25 UTC
If you want to get the dir in which the script lies, use FindBin]. I used to be a fan of FindBin myself, but since I'm here I've discovered thanks to tye's excellent article and subsequent interventions that it is somewhat broken. If you want to use proper HTML templates, consider using HTML::Template, Template, HTML::Template::Compiled or the like. Lately, I'm "advertising" our fellow Rhandom's "new" Template::Alloy, because from what I read it seems very cool, and I'm enthusiast. But I realize this may get tiresome on the long run, so I won't do it any more... (Unless there are compellingly good reasons to do so!) If you want to escape "dangerous" characters, I recommend HTML::Entities. Well, since you rightly mentioned CGI, it is worth mentioning that it can do that too, sometimes automatically or by explicit (depending on the charset) use of `escapeHTML()`.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Passing Parameters Help!
by blazar (Canon) on Jul 10, 2007 at 22:25 UTC

If you want to get the dir in which the script lies, use FindBin].

I used to be a fan of FindBin myself, but since I'm here I've discovered thanks to tye's excellent article and subsequent interventions that it is somewhat broken.

If you want to use proper HTML templates, consider using HTML::Template, Template, HTML::Template::Compiled or the like.

Lately, I'm "advertising" our fellow Rhandom's "new" Template::Alloy, because from what I read it seems very cool, and I'm enthusiast. But I realize this may get tiresome on the long run, so I won't do it any more... (Unless there are compellingly good reasons to do so!)

If you want to escape "dangerous" characters, I recommend HTML::Entities.

Well, since you rightly mentioned CGI, it is worth mentioning that it can do that too, sometimes automatically or by explicit (depending on the charset) use of escapeHTML().

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