[thelist] Perl program question

[Mark Groen]

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 12:49 -0400, Portman wrote:

> I wrote a Perl program for a client a while ago and she recently called 
> me to say that it is not calculating the shipping correctly.  The 
> shipping is calculated by taking a percentage of the total (depending on 
> location) plus a $5 shipping and handling fee. I wrote the program so 
> that the person would only be able to return to the cart after choosing 
> a state and clicking calculate. I have been through the code over and 
> over and cannot figure out what is wrong. If anyone is able to help it 
> would be much appreciated.
> 
> The script is at http://www.starqualitydesigns.com/blums/ship.cgi and 
> can be seen in action at http://www.blumspapergoods.com (add something 
> to the shopping cart and go from there). Please remember that this is a 
> live site.

# Methinks you need to find out if this returns null:
my $selectedState=$q->param('state');
# then 
else { something - see below }
# before you do this
 my $shippingCharge=$shipcost{$selectedState}*$1+5;
 # Multiply total by percentage and add $5 for shipping
 # my $grandTotal= ($shippingCharge*$1)+6;

Hope that makes sense?

Also,
if ($selectedState eq '') then this part instead of being empty/false would be true and your calculation appears.

Not too familiar with perl, maybe that helps some though...
-- 
cheers,

        Mark