Hi
I am trying to allow users to create custom fields(numbers, free text, drop down lists & Dates)
I have read of four available methods to use
1. the meta-database
2. the mutating table
3. the fixed table
4. the LOB
I am wanting to use the meta database method but cannot find any good...
Try
Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
it is an o'reilly book and the isbn is 1-56592-324-3,
the authors are by Randal L. Schwartz, Erik Olson, and Tom Christiansen
Have fun.
Knowledge is power
Power is Mon£y
Ok first of all if you are hosting this site on an ISP you should have a cgi-bin (virtual directory I suggest you read up on these) already created and perl will surely be installed (if they are any kind of ISP). I am sure that they will be very happy to give you any details. So now we can see...
First you need a form in which your customers will type their info like this
<TABLE>
<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="cgi-bin/tek.pl" name="customers">
<!-- the action must point to the script that will be processing the form -->
<TR>
<TD>name</TD>
<TD><INPUT...
Try this bit of code it might do the trick. Have changed the location of the $text variable, you might need to tweak this a bit to get it just right.
#! C:/perl/bin/perl.exe -w
use strict;
use CGI qw(:all);
use Fcntl qw(:flock);
my $q = new CGI;
#Location of text file
my...
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