I am running a login script and perhaps there is a better way to do this but I think I have it right. Here's how the program should run

fetch cookies
check if authorized
if yes, redirect
if no, 
   check for params
   if param
      check for credentials
      if credentials are good
        set authorized cookie
        redirect to default page
      else
       authorization failed
display form to login
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I feel this should work but I need to rerun the 'if param' if statement with the newly entered credentials to get this to work. Here is my code if its easier to look at that.

use DBI;
use CGI qw /:standard/;
use CGI::Cookie;
use warnings;

my %cookies = CGI::Cookie->fetch;
if (defined $cookies{'authorized'}){
        #redirect to search.cgi 
        print redirect("search.cgi");
}

if (param){
        my $username = param('username');
        my $password = param('password');
        my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=/var/tmp/database.db
+","","");
        my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select * from users where
                                username = ? and password = ?");
        $sth->execute($username, $password);
        my @row = $sth->fetch_array;
        if (@row){
                #login successful

                # set 'authorized' cookie
                my $cookie = CGI::Cookie->new(
                        -name=>'authorized',
                        -value=>1,
                        -path=>'/~default/chinook');
                        #-expires=>'+10m');

                #redirect to search.cgi
                print redirect(-uri=>'search.cgi',
                                -cookie=>$cookie);


        }else{
                # login failed
                
        }
}
print header, start_html('Login'),h1('Login'),
start_form,
      "Username: ",textfield('username'),br,
      "Password: ",password_field('password'),br,
      submit('Enter'),
end_form, "\n";
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Any ideas how to rerun the if(param) statement?

Maybe a subroutine?

Got it running, thanks to anyone who helped. Working code follows.

use DBI;
use CGI qw /:standard/;
use CGI::Cookie;
use warnings;

#print header('text/plain');

my %cookies = CGI::Cookie->fetch;

if (! defined $cookies{'authorized'})
{
        if (param)
        {
                my $username = param('username');
                my $password = param('password');
                my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=/path/to/dat
+abase.db","","");
                my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select * from users where
                                        username = ? and password = ?"
+);
                $sth->execute($username,$password);
                my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array;

                if (@row)
                {
                        #login successful, set authorized cookie
                        my $cookie = CGI::Cookie->new(
                                -name=>'authorized',
                                -value=>1,
                                -path=>'/default/path');
                                #-expires=>'+10m');
                        print redirect(-uri=>'search.cgi',-cookie=>$co
+okie);


                }

                else
                {
                        &print_login;
                        exit;
                }

        }

        else
        {
                &print_login;
                exit;
        }
}

print redirect('search.cgi');
exit;

sub print_login
{
        print header, start_html('Login'),h1('Login'),
        start_form,
                "Username: ",textfield('username'),br,
                "Password: ",password_field('password'),br,
                submit('Enter'),
        end_form, end_html;
        exit;
}
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