Why can i not pass the info from my html page to my cgi script? Im trying to learn perl and i want to break stuff down into easy steps for now...please help
MadAxe
################ HTML FILE ################
<html>
<body bgcolor=black text=yellow>
<form method="POST" action="test.cgi">
<div style='position: absolute; top: 170; left: 530;'><b>Name: </b><input type=text name=name size=30></div><br>
<div style='position: absolute; top: 200; left: 468;'><b>E-mail Address: </b><input type=text name=email size=30></div><br>
<div style='position: absolute; top: 270; left: 426;'><b>Fantasy Player Name: </b><input type=text name=player size=30></div><br>
<div style='position: absolute; top: 300; left: 507;'><b>Password: </b><input type=password name=pass><input type=submit value=Submit name=submit></div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
################ CGI FILE ################
#!/Perl/bin/perl
use CGI qw
standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
$username = '$form{name}';
$password = '$form{pass}';
$emailadr = '$form{email}';
$player = '$form{player}';
print <<"html";
<body>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 10;"><h4><u>$username</u></h4></div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 110;"><h4><u>$password</u></h4></div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 210;"><h4><u>$emailadr</u></h4></div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 320;"><h4><u>$player</u></h4></div>
</body>
html
MadAxe
################ HTML FILE ################
<html>
<body bgcolor=black text=yellow>
<form method="POST" action="test.cgi">
<div style='position: absolute; top: 170; left: 530;'><b>Name: </b><input type=text name=name size=30></div><br>
<div style='position: absolute; top: 200; left: 468;'><b>E-mail Address: </b><input type=text name=email size=30></div><br>
<div style='position: absolute; top: 270; left: 426;'><b>Fantasy Player Name: </b><input type=text name=player size=30></div><br>
<div style='position: absolute; top: 300; left: 507;'><b>Password: </b><input type=password name=pass><input type=submit value=Submit name=submit></div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
################ CGI FILE ################
#!/Perl/bin/perl
use CGI qw
standard);use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
$username = '$form{name}';
$password = '$form{pass}';
$emailadr = '$form{email}';
$player = '$form{player}';
print <<"html";
<body>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 10;"><h4><u>$username</u></h4></div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 110;"><h4><u>$password</u></h4></div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 210;"><h4><u>$emailadr</u></h4></div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 320;"><h4><u>$player</u></h4></div>
</body>
html