Pass form to file instead of email

[alphanumero]

You probably hear this a lot, but I'm a noob, and I know I'm jumping in way over my head, but here's what I want to do:
I want to create a form that instead of using the mailto: or the like, just appends its information to a log on the server for later reading. So far in my research, nothing has made itself obvious, but it strikes me this should be possible... Is it?

 

[feherke]

Hi

Of course it is possible. That is the normal processing flow, the [tt]mailto:[/tt] is just an aberration.

What programming language can you use on that server ?

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[alphanumero]

heh, any language I want... it's mine, although I've already configged it for perl and don't really want to do too much work... I found a thread with a similar question, but it's closed, and doesn't really tell me how to pass the data from my form to the log (

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1157471).

I have the basic gist now, I just need to know how append the data ^_^

 

[feherke]

Hi

Certainly there are much better examples. This one is simple :

<form action="/cgi-bin/logit.pl">
Name : <input type="text" name="[b]name[/b]"><br>
Sex : <input type="radio" name="[b]sex[/b]" value="m">Male /<input type="radio" name="[b]sex[/b]" value="f">Female<br>
<input type="submit">
</form>

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI qw/:standard/;

[red]open FIL,">>logit.txt";
print FIL param("[b]name[/b]")."\t".param("[b]sex[/b]")."\n";
close FIL;[/red]

print header;
print "Form data saved";

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[alphanumero]

Ok, so one more question... what do the \t and \n switches do?
if I want more variables, will that affect the \t and \n thingy?

 

[alphanumero]

Har! I figured it out... 1 or 2 internal server errors and I'm on the road! Thanks X20 million on this one ^_^
I really appreciate your help.

 

[KevinADC]

The CGI module has built in funtions for saving form data to file. Read the CGI documentation. Or you can do it manually like Feherke has shown you.

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