I have managed to piece together (from looking at other's scripts) a very simple script that takes all of the elements sent to it via html form and arranges them and emails the results.

All I am trying to do now is add a little modification of making a few of the fields required. A problem, the script doesn't have the fields being sent to it hard coded into it so I can't easily put a simple if ($firstname = "") in it. It loops, reading each name=value.

You can see below I tried just coding into the loop to check for if $name = "firstname" then check if $value = "". But it doesn't work at all. I could use some help, hack at me all ya can!

#!/usr/bin/perl

$mailprog = "/usr/lib/sendmail";
$msg = "";
$send_to = "webmaster\@3dwc.com";
$subject = "Online Repair Status Inquiry";
$from = "Form Submission";
$ok_url = "/thanks.html";
$bad_url = "/nogo.html";

%f = &parseform;

foreach $key (sort keys %f) {
  $mystring = "$key: $f{$key}\n";
  $msg .= $mystring;
  }

&sendmail($from,$send_to,$subject,$msg);
print "Location: $ok_url\n\n";

sub sendmail {
    my($from,$to,$subject,@msg) = @_;
    open(MAIL,"|$mailprog -t");
    print MAIL "To: $to\n";
    print MAIL "From: $from\n";
    print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n";
    print MAIL <<EndMail;
@msg
EndMail
    close(MAIL);
}

sub parseform {
    read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
    @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);

    foreach $pair (@pairs) {
        ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
        $value =~ tr/+/ /;
        $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
        $FORM{$name} = $value;
        if ($name = "firstname"){
           if ($value = ""){
           die print "must enter first name";
           }else{
                #all is well
           }
        }elsif ($name = "lastname{
             #all is well
        }
    }
        return %FORM;
}

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