CGI - Accessing form parameters broken

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Hello,

I found this site to be very helpful in learning perl, but now I seem to be stumped and wonder if one of experts could assit me with this little problem....

On my web form I have a simple comment form which passes 4 vars to the perl script.

from the script I get mixed up variables (weird) All variables are dumped into the first? Any Ideas what could be the problem.... ? (Using cgi.pm for this....)

____ The Perl Script_______

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 #!E:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

    use CGI qw/:standard/;

    use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);

    use Net::SMTP; 

    my $in = CGI::new;
 
# Get Vars from htm form

my $Contact_me = $in->param('enable');

my $Employee = $in->param('name');

my $Purposal = $in->param('Purpuse');

my $Comments = $in->param('Wisdom');
 
# message format building phase

$body = "<html><HEAD><TITLE>Post Comment</TITLE></head><body><p>";

$body .= "<font color=blue size=2> Web User wishs to make $Purposal . <br>";

$body .= "Name: $Employee <br>"; 

$body .= "User $Contact_me to be contacted. <br> ";

$body .= " <br> <br> $Comments ";

$body .= "<br>";

$body .= "<font size=1 color=white> $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} </font><br>";

$body .= "<H6> Have a nice day!! </H6> \n";

$body .= "</BODY></html> \n";   
 
#Test lines begin

print $body;

_____HTML output from the CGI_____

[HTML]Web User wishs to make .
Name: testuser enable=disagree Purpuse=Complai nt Wisdom=test the web
User to be contacted.

Have a nice day!! [/HTML]

Thanks for what help you might have....

e-mail

Feb 15 '07 #1

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KevinADC

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can we see the html form too?

Feb 15 '07 #2

KevinADC

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We could start with general code clean-up in the mean time:

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#!E:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

use strict;

use warnings;

use diagnostics;

use CGI;

use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);

use Net::SMTP;

my $in = CGI->new;

print $in->header(); 

warningsToBrowser(1);

# Get Vars from htm form

my $Contact_me  = $in->param('enable');

my $Employee    = $in->param('name');

my $Purposal    = $in->param('Purpuse');

my $Comments    = $in->param('Wisdom');
 
# message format building phase

my $body = qq~<html><HEAD><TITLE>Post Comment</TITLE></head><body><p>

<font color=blue size=2> Web User wishs to make $Purposal<br>

Name: $Employee <br>

User $Contact_me to be contacted. <br>

<br> <br> $Comments

<br>

<font size=1 color=white> $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} </font><br>

<H6> Have a nice day!! </H6>

</BODY></html>

~;   
 
#Test lines begin

print $body;

in your code you never printed an http header so the script should not have worked if run as a cgi from a client/server.

Feb 15 '07 #3

Ticool

New Member

AS you requested, the html code....

[HTML]
<html>
<head>
<title>FEEDBACK </title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style>
#enterName {
visibility: hidden;
padding-left: 50px;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="./SDFJASJF;;DSKFS JDFASJSD;KJAF/form.js"></script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#EEEEE E"> <center>
<table width=80 border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>< tr><td>
<p><font size="6" color=blue><b>< center> Wiser words</b></font><br>
<center> <p><font color=violet size=2><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaS cript">var now = new Date();
var days = new Array('Sunday', 'Monday','Tuesd ay','Wednesday' ,'Thursday','Fr iday','Saturday ');
var months = new Array('January' ,'February','Ma rch','April','M ay','June','Jul y','August','Se ptember','Octob er','November', 'December');
var date = ((now.getDate() <10) ? "0" : "")+ now.getDate();
function fourdigits(numb er) {
return (number < 1000) ? number + 1900 : number;
}
//join
today = days[now.getDay()] + ", " +
months[now.getMonth()] + " " +
date + ", " +
(fourdigits(now .getYear())) ;
document.write( today);</script>
</p>
<hr width="50%" align="center">
<form method="post" enctype="text/plain" action="/cgi/todo.pl" name="enablefor m" onSubmit="retur n disableForm(thi s);">
<table align=center border=0 cellpadding=1 width=30% cellspacing=1>
<td><tr><font size=2 color=green><ce nter>
Do you wish to be contacted?   <font size=1.5 color=red>*</font>
<input type="radio" name="enable" value="agree" onclick="agree2 ();">Yes, I wish to be contacted!
<div id="enterName"> Please enter your name: <input type=text id="box" name="name" value=""></div>
<input type="radio" name="enable" value="disagree " onclick="disagr ee();" checked>No, I wish to be anonyous!
<br><br>

<table align=center border=0 cellpadding=0 width=35% cellspacing=1>
<td><tr><center > Purpose:   <font size=1.5 color=red>*</font>
</td></tr></table>
<table align=center border=0 cellpadding=1 width=30% cellspacing=1>
<td><tr><center >
<input type="radio" name="Purpuse" value="Complain t"> Complaint<br>
<input type="radio" name="Purpuse" value="Suggesti on" checked> Suggestion
</tr></td></table>
<hr width=50% align="center">
<table align=center border=0 cellpadding=1 width=30% cellspacing=1>
<td><tr><center ><p>Comments:   <font size=1.5 color=red>* </font>
</tr></td></table>
<textarea name="Wisdom" cols="60" wrap="ON" rows="10"></textarea>
<p><p>
<table width="50%" border="5" cellpadding="10 ">
<tr>
<td>
<div align="center">
<input type="submit" name="done" value="Send!" onmouseover="go Submit()" onmouseout="thi s.value='Send!' ">
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div align="center"> <center>
<input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Reset">
</div></tr>
</table>
<font color=red><h6>F ields with an * are required!</h6></font>
</form>
</tr></td></table>
</body>
</html>
[/HTML]

I've also added the perl code to the above perl code.....

#Test lines begin
print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print $body;

I checked a couple of our developer scripts at work and they have these in the code.....

print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

Even with them, I still have the variables messed up in the body statement.... Beingthe brain child, I changed the body statments to explude the variables and it still didn't work?

$body = "<html><HEAD><T ITLE>Post Mail</TITLE></head><body><p>" ;
$body .= "<img height\=60 width\=55 src\=\"http\://tuxedo\.capreit \.net/Apps/Documentation/HomeDocumentRep ository\.nsf/logo\.JPG\">\n\ n";
$body .= "<p><P><fon t color=blue size=2> Web User wishs to make " . $Purposal \. ."<br>";
$body .= "Name: " . $Employee . '<br>\n";
$body .= " $Con \n";
$body .= " <br> " . $Comments . '<br>\n";
$body .= "<font size=1 color=white>". $ENV{REMOTE_ADD R} \. . " </font><br>\n";
$body .= "<H6> Have a nice day!! </H6> \n";
$body .= "</BODY></html> \n";

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