On Dec 7, 12:43 pm, g...@lazymountain.com (Greg Jetter) wrote:
> On Sunday 06 December 2009 10:24:31 am Adam Jimerson wrote:
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> > I am working on a registration page and there for want it to show the
> > user errors it has found with their input. I have two subroutines in
> > my code, the first one prints out the form, also takes an array with
> > error descriptions that is passed by the other subroutine. The other
> > subroutine takes the user input and verifies it, any errors that it
> > finds it pushes into an array called @errors and passes that back to
> > the first subroutine. The problem is it doesn't work right when I
> > run it from the command line this is what I get:
>
> > vend...@seserver:~/public_html/AmeriVista> perl -cT register.cgi
> > [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: Illegal character in
> > prototype for main::form_verify : @user at register.cgi line 43.
> > [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: Scalar found where operator
> > expected at register.cgi line 93, near "$user"
> > [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: (Missing semicolon on
> > previous line?)
> > [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: main::form_verify() called
> > too early to check prototype at register.cgi line 36.
> > Content-type: text/html
>
> > <h1>Software error:</h1>
> > <pre>syntax error at register.cgi line 93, near "$user"
> > Global symbol "$GoodMail" requires explicit package name at
> > register.cgi line 93.
> > register.cgi had compilation errors.
> > </pre>
> > <p>
> > For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error
> > message
> > and the time and date of the error.
>
> > </p>
> > [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: syntax error at register.cgi
> > line 93, near "$user"
> > [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: Global symbol "$GoodMail"
> > requires explicit package name at register.cgi line 93.
> > [Sun Dec 6 14:12:12 2009] register.cgi: register.cgi had compilation
> > errors.
>
> > I have attached my code for the script, if someone could look at it
> > and give some ideas as to how to make this work or a better way then
> > please do
>
> You are trying to use a local scoped var as a global , line 93 $GoodMail is
> used out of its scope ,
>
> if ( $user[5] =~ /^([...@\w.]+)$/ ) {
> $user[5] = $1;
> eval {
> my $GoodMail = Email::Valid->address( -address =>
> "$user[5]", -mxcheck =>
> 1);
> return;
> }
> #push @errors, "<p>Error: Double check your email
> address</p>" if $@;
> $user[5] = $GoodMail;
> }
>
> it should read
>
> if ( $user[5] =~ /^([...@\w.]+)$/ ) {
> my $GoodMail ;
> $user[5] = $1;
> eval {
> $GoodMail = Email::Valid->address( -address =>
> "$user[5]", -mxcheck => 1);
> return;
> }
> #push @errors, "<p>Error: Double check your email
> address</p>" if $@;
> $user[5] = $GoodMail;
> }
>
> or even declare it up with the other globals if you want , but the way you
> have it now it is out of scope after that eval { } block completes.
>
> there may be other errors , fix that one first and try it again and see what
> else pops up.
>
> have fun
>
> Greg
Ok well I have corrected a couple more errors with the script and it
now has no errors during compile and runs until it goes to report
problems it has found back to the user:
#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use warnings;
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use DBI;
use Email::Valid;
BEGIN {
$|=1;
use CGI::Carp('fatalsToBrowser');
}
delete @ENV { 'IFS', 'CDPATH', 'ENV', 'BASH_ENV'};
my @user; #Here @user deals with: first name, last name, username,
password, CLSCC Email, and Student Number
my @errors;
my $dbh;
sub db_connect {
use constant username => 'secret';
use constant password => 'secret';
my $database = 'database name';
my $server = 'localhost';
my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$database;host=$server;port=3306" ||
die "Couldn't Connect to the Database: $!";
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, username, password, {RaiseError
=> 1}) || die "couldn't authenticate to the Database: $!";
}
db_connect ();
print header;
print start_html (-title=>"AmeriVista Event Logging",
-author=>'vend...@vendion.net');
print "<h1>Registration Form</h1>\n";
print "<hr>\n";
if (param) {
form_verify (@user);
} else {
print start_form;
print_form ();
print end_form, "\n";
}
sub form_verify {
$user[0] = param('FirstName');
if ( $user[0] =~ /^([-\w.]+)$/ ) {
$user[0] = $1;
} else {
push @errors, "<p>First Names should only contain
letters</p>\n";
}
$user[1] = param('LastName');
if ( $user[1] =~ /^([...@\w.]+)$/ ) {
$user[1] = $1;
} else {
push @errors, "<p>Last Name Should Only Contain
Letters</p>\n";
}
$user[2] = param('Username');
if ( $user[2] =~ /^([...@\w.]+)$/ ) {
$user[2] = $1;
} else {
push @errors, "<p>Usernames Should Only Contain
Letters and Numbers</p>\n";
}
$user[3] = param('Password1');
if ( $user[3] =~ /^([...@\w.]+)$/ ) {
if ( length ( $user[3] ) eq '6' ) {
$user[3] = $1;
if ( length ( $user[3] ) eq '6' ) {
$user[3] = $1;
} else {
push @errors, "<p>The password is to short, it
should be atleast 6 charaters long</p>\n";
}
} else {
push @errors, "<p>The Password Should only Contain
alphanumeric characters!\n";;
}
$user[4] = param('Password2');
if ( $user[4] =~ /^([...@\w.]+)$/ ) {
if ( length ( $user[4] eq '6' ) ) {
$user[4] = $1;
} else {
push @errors, "<p>The Password is to
Short, it should be at least 6 charaters long</p>\n";
}
} else {
push @errors, "<p>The Password Should only Contain
alphanumeric characters!\n";
}
if ( $user[3] != $user[4] ) {
push @errors, "<p>Error: Passwords do not match!</p>\n";
}
$user[5] = param('Email');
if ( $user[5] =~ /^([...@\w.]+)$/ ) {
my $GoodMail;
$user[5] = $1;
eval {
$GoodMail = Email::Valid->address( -address =>
"$user[5]", -mxcheck => 1);
return;
};
push @errors, "<p>Error: Double check your email
address</p>\n" if $@;
$user[5] = $GoodMail;
} else {
push @errors, "<p>Incorrect Email given</p>\n";
}
$user[6] = param('studentid');
if ( $user[6] =~ /^([...@.]+)$/ ) {
$user[6] = $1;
} else {
push @errors, "<p>Incorrect studentid given</p>\n";
}
push @errors, "<p>Incorrect studentid given</p>\n";
}
if ( @errors ) {
print "Errors found, going back to form\n"; #Debugging
print_form (@errors);
} else {
print "No errors found\n";
return @user;
}
}
sub print_form {
my @errors = @_;
print "<div align='center'>\n";
print "<table width='25%' border=1 summary='Register'>\n";
print "<td align='left' valign='middle'>\n";
if ( @errors ) {
while ( @errors ) {
print $_, "\n";
print "<br>\n";
}
}
print "<p>Registration</p>\n";
}
print "<p>Registration</p>\n";
print "<p>First Name: ", textfield(-name=>'FirstName',
-maxlength=>120), "\n";
print "<br>\n";
print "Last Name: ", textfield(-name=>'LastName',
-maxlength=>120), "\n";
print "<br>\n";
print "Username: ", textfield(-name=>'Username',
-maxlenght=>120), "\n";
print "<br>\n";
print "Password: ", password_field(-name=>'Password1',
-maxlength=>120), "\n";
print "<br>\n";
print "Repeat Password: ", password_field(-name=>'Password2',
-maxlength=>120),
"\n";
print "<br>\n";
print "CLSCC Email: ", textfield(-name=>'Email',
-maxlenght=>120), "\n";
print "<br>\n";
print "Student ID #: N", textfield(-name=>'studentid',
-maxlength=>120), "</p>";
print submit(-name=>'Submit_Form',
-maxlength=>120), "</p>";
print submit(-name=>'Submit_Form',
-value=>'Submit');
print reset, "\n";
print "</td>\n";
print "</table>\n";
print "</div>\n";
}
Just submitting a blank form is enough to trigger the problem I have
(see for yourself http://vendion.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/register.cgi), it
looks like the script stops execution or fails once it hits this block
of code:
if ( @errors ) {
while ( @errors ) {
print $_, "\n";
print "<br>\n";
}
}
According to my browser the page never finishes loading and it starts
to draw the table but never finishes. I don't know if it is because I
am handling the @errors array wrong in the print_form() subroutine
(completely possible, first time doing anything like this in Perl), I
know it has to be that block of code because I can commit it out and
everything works smoothly.
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