Hi All,
I'm new to the list and know more php than perl. I can read perl and
understand some of it. One problem I seem to be facing is variable
assignment and keeping the variables from script to script. In php this
is fairly easy by assigning the global to the variable.
I'm not sure how to do this in perl
I have a affiliate program I am working with that I would like to make
some changes to and correct a couple of bugs in
The program uses
use CGI qw (:standard);
$q = new CGI;
in every script
it also has
$referer = $q->referer();
in all the scripts
the $referer variable is the one that I think is causing me the problem.
To explain my situation as to execution the perl and html pages go like this
a cookie is set by a script with the affiliate ID. If the person who
clicked the link has cookies enabled on their browser a cookie is set
with the affiliate information. upon clicking the order it pulls cookie
info if present or searches for a IP in the database if not (although
this is commented out on purpose) the order page is a html form and the
information then is transported to a different set of perl scripts to
inform us of a order and it's details, then it pop up another html page
to take the person to either paypal or our merchant processor. On
completion they are returned to a cgi script where the commission is
processed.
This is where we loose the $referer variable I think, maybe we've lost
it earlier in the process. Can anyone point me to the docs that cover
this or explain to this newbie how variables are kept and transfered
between scripts especially if there are at least 2 or 3 html pages
between the scripts. I thought about the HTML POST variables but don't
think that it would still be present from one page to another to
merchant processor and back.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Charles Mattice
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