It would probably be best to change your open to the complete path to the file that the user wants open.
also, since you seem to be using an editor for your html, why not pull the html out of the perl
Look into HTML::Template. It will make site updates much nicer and break less perl. html::template tutorial.
here are the changes I would make:
cgi file:
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
my $video_info;
# Loads the CGI Module
use CGI;
# creates a new CGI object
my $page = new CGI;
# This will print a standard HTML header
print $page->header;
# Grab a named CGI parameter
my $value = $page->param("video");
#Open up the file that contains the review of the video
open(SEE, "/var/www/docs/$value") or $video_info="$!";
while(<SEE>){
#put data from review into variable
$video_info .= "$_";
}
#close file
close(SEE);
#Now print out lots of HyperText Mark-up Language using
# HTML::Template
my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'my.tmpl');
$template->param(info => $video_info);
print $template->output;
exit;
and the template:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Adobe PageMill 3.0 Win">
<TITLE>Animetion Station > Video Review > Oh MY Goddess! Volum
+e 1</title>
<LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="../Style.css" TYPE="text/css">
</head>
<BODY TEXT="#ffffff">
<P STYLE="background-color: #3257b8; width: 350px;"><I><FONT SIZE="+3"
FACE="Garamond">Animetion Station</font></i></p>
<div id="Bottom">
<P><I><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Garamond">Video Review</font></i></p>
</div>
<P><CENTER> </center></p>
<P><TABLE WIDTH="738" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"
HEIGHT="24">
<TR>
<TD WIDTH="67" VALIGN="TOP">
<div class="Standard">
<P><CENTER><A HREF="../index.htm">[Home]</a> <HR>
<A HREF="../Gallery.shtml">[Gallery]</a> <HR>
<A HREF="../Manga.shtml">[Manga]</a> <HR>
<A HREF="../Video_Review.shtml">[Video Reviews]</a> <HR>
<A HREF="../Links.shtml">[Links]</a> <HR>
<A HREF="../Web_Comic.shtml">[Web Comic]</a></center></td>
<TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="270" HEIGHT="131">
</div>
</td>
<TD WIDTH="382" VALIGN="TOP">
<!-- this is the bit that HTML::Template wants so it knows where to pu
+t the value of $video_info -->
<TMPL_VAR NAME="info">
<!--VIDEO REVIEW LINKS-->
<P STYLE="background-color: darkBlue;">
<A HREF="cgi-bin/Video_Gen.cgi?video=Video_Txt_Files%2fBattle_Skip
+per_Vol_1.txt">Battle Skipper Volume One by Ertain</a><BR>
<A HREF="cgi-bin/Video_Gen.cgi?video=Video_Txt_Files%2fOMG_Vol_1.t
+xt">Oh My Goddess! Volume One by Ertain</a><BR>
<A HREF="cgi-bin/Video_Gen.cgi?video=Video_Txt_Files%2fOMG_Vol_2.t
+xt">Oh My Goddess! Volume Two by Ertain</a><BR>
<A HREF="cgi-bin/Video_Gen.cgi?video=Video_Txt_Files%2fOMG_Vol_3.t
+xt">Oh My Goddess! Volune Three by Ertain</a><BR>
<A HREF="cgi-bin/Video_Gen.cgi?video=Video_Txt_Files%2fOMG_Vol_4.t
+xt">Oh My Goddess! Volume Four by Ertain</a><BR>
<A HREF="cgi-bin/Video_Gen.cgi?video=Video_Txt_Files%2fOMG_Vol_5.t
+xt">Oh My Goddess! Volume Five by Ertain</a></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
-p
