From form to ascii file

[chomps303]

I have a form on my SCO Unix box and I want to send the fields to a text file. How can I do that?

 

[PaulTEG]

set up your html file to be accessible via a webserver that has CGI enabled.

<form method=post action=/cgi-bin/myscript.pl>
<input type=text name=fred></input>
<input type=submit>
</form>

perl script to reside in /cgi-bin/myscript.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
#above is the shebang line issue which perl at the command line to see 
#where your perl actually resides

use strict;  #force good practice
use CGI;

my $query=new CGI;
my $fred=param('fred');

print $q->header;

open FH, ">>myfile.txt" or die "can't open output file $!";
print FH "fred is now $fred\n";
close FH;

print $q->start_html();
print $q->"fred is now $fred";
print $q->end_html();

Look up Lincoln Stein, CGI on google

HTH
--Paul


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