Spent better part of 3-days writing a CGI script to handle the input form data from my HTML. Used Padre as an editor but now receive this error when running the script.
- "uncaught exception from user code: "-T" is on the #! line, it must also be used on the command line at scipt.pl"
I'd like some pointers if anyone is willing to look over my code and offer guidance. This is my first endeavor into Perl and CGI. What I desire for endstate is a form a webuser enters data and then hits submit. After validation a page is sent back to the browser with information and errors if they exist. here is my code and thanks in advance!
HTML Code:
<html>
<head><title>My First CGI-PERL</title>
<!--Link to css for styling here-->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<header>
<h1>Welcome to my first CGI-PERL Form submission</h1></header>
<br>
<p>Please Enter the following information in the fields and click
SUBMIT.</p>
<hr>
<br>
<div class="container1">
<form action="/cgi-bin/text.pl" method="post"> <!--script to process
this section-->
Item Number<input type="text" name="Item"><br> <!--Cannot be blank-->
Product Name<input type="text" name="Name"><br> <!--Cannot be
blank-->
Product Cost<input type="text" name="Cost"><br> <!--must be between .50 and $1000-->
Selling Price<input type="text" name="Price"><br> <!--price from 1.00 to 2000.00-->
Quantity on Hand<input type="text" name="Quantity"><br> <!--cannot be negative-->
</form></div>
<br>
<br>
<hr>
<br>
<h2>Choose A Product Category</h2> <!--must be one of the categories-->
<br>
<div class="container2">
<form action="/cgi-bin/radio.pl" method="post"> <!--name of script that handles this section-->
<input type="radio" name="letter" value="F">F<br>
<input type="radio" name="letter" value="H">H<br>
<input type="radio" name="letter" value="M">M<br>
<input type="radio" name="letter" value="C">C<br>
<input type="radio" name="letter" value="T">T<br>
<br>
</form></div>
<hr>
<br>
<div class="container4">
<form action="/cgi-bin/myfirstcgi.cgi" method="post"> <!--script to process submit and send a second page back-->
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="SUBMIT"><br>
</form></div> <!--close container 2-->
<!--Profit should be auto generated on the second page created by the script-->
</body>
</html>
Perl Script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(:standard);
print "<html><body>";
print "Thank you for submitting the form. <br>\n";
#return to html page with form
print "To go back to the form page click"; #how can i insert a link to the form page here
print "You chose item number ", param("Item")," \n";
print "The product name is ", param("Name"), " \n";
print "The Cost is ", param("Cost")," \n";
print "Selling Price ", param("Price")," \n";
print "Quantity on Hand is ", param("Quantity")," \n";
#scalar variables to hold form input data
my $item = param("Item");
my $name = param("Name");
my $cost = param("Cost");
my $price = param("Price");
my $category = param("Category"); #radio button chosen
my $quantity = param("Quantity");
my $profit = $cost - $price;
#radio buttons
my %categories = ("F", "H", "M", "C", "T");
#validation a category was chosen
my $categories = param("letter");
if (exists $categories{$category}) {
print "The product Category is $category";
}
else {
error ("You must select a category");
}
#validate input
if ($item eq "") {
error ("Field cannot be blank");
}
if ($name eq "") {
error ("Field cannot be blank");
}
if ($cost < .50 && $cost > 1000) {
error ("Invalid Entry Cost must be between $.50 and $1000");
}
if ($price < 1.00 && $cost > 2000) {
error ("Invalid Amount Please enter Price between $1.00 and $2000");
}
if ($quantity < 0) {
error ("Quantity cannot be negative number");
}
sub error {
my ($errormsg) = @_;
print "<h2>Error</h2>\n";
print "$errormsg<p>\n";
print "</body></html>\n";
exit;
}
