You know... With Zope there is a Poll product, one of many different products they have. All you do is set up the questions and answers, and it does everything. I never did make it to the Zope presentation, though I have talked with Jiva at least a little bit; those who weren't sold on Zope then should really consider it when it comes to website application design; IMHO zope can't be beat. My $.02, Lucas Vogel -----Original Message----- From: Mike Cantrell [mailto:yomahz@devnull.org] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 8:12 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: [azipa] Perl/CGI help<-- found it! Doh... I found your attachment... I restarted mail client and there it was (I'll blame it on windows... yeah... that's it.). The problem is this: #total votes $total== $opt_a + $opt_b + $opt_c; You're using the == operator which compares the values. I think you want to use = to assign the value. Regards, Mike Cantrell Mike Cantrell wrote: > > Unfortunately, I didn't get your attachment so I can't review your code. > CGI debugging can really suck sometimes... What I usually do is create a > debug log and throw print statements in everywhere so I can make sure > the variables contain what I think they do. I also use the stict modual > which helps prevent spelling mistakes with variables. > > try this at the beginning of your code: > ---cut here-- > use CGI::Carp; > > BEGIN { > use CGI::Carp qw(carpout); > open(LOG, '/tmp/web.log') #or 'c:\temp\web.txt' in your case > or die "Unable to append to mycgi-log: $!\n"; > carpout(*LOG); > } > > print STDERR "testing debug log\n"; > --end cut-- > > You can use the strict module which makes you declare your variables > before you can use them... it helps alot with spelling errors and makes > your programs a little faster... > > put this at the beggining of your code: > > --cut here-- > use strict; > > my $variable; #declare variables with my before you use them. > my $string = "value"; #you can assign values while declaring > > --end cut-- > > Good Luck... if you want to send me the code, I'd be happy to look at > it. > > Regards, > Mike Cantrell > > Laurie Ann Silberman wrote: > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > LA > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Laurie Ann Silberman > > To: azipa@listbot.com > > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 8:36 AM > > Subject: [azipa] Perl/CGI help > > > > AZIPA Discussion List - http://www.azipa.org > > > > I am currently teaching myself Perl/CGI (on Win32 systems) for my new > > position. My first assignment is to create a poll using a flat ASCII data > > file. > > > > Testing confirms that: > > 1. The results page will build > > 2. The data file is loading > > 3. The input from the poll form is loading. > > > > But when I try to run the whole thing together --- nothing. No error > > messages, just nothing. A team member with more Perl experience scanned > > my > > code and saw no reason why it should not run. > > > > The files are attached. I appreciate any help you code maniacs can give. > > > > Laurie Ann > > > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _______________________________________________ Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss