Writing a mail form to a log file?

[caffeinerusher]

Hello,

I have a simple form that a customer fills out and submits it. A CGI takes the contents of the form and sends it as an email. Do do some recent problems with our server it has been requested that I also write the contents of the form to a log file. I would need each submission of the form (probably 20-30 a day) to be written to the same file. Can anybody help?

--Caffeinerusher

 

[goBoating]

A general treatment of the situation,
Once you have the $contents you want to print to your log file.

# number of seconds since jan 1, 1970 ,( I think, 1-1-1970??)
$date = localtime; 

$logFile = '/path/to/your/log/file.txt';
open(LOGFILE,">>$logFile") or die "Failed to open log file, $!\n";
flock LOGFILE, 2; # lock the file
print LOGFILE &quot;<entry>\n$date -> $contents\n</entry>\n&quot;;
flock LOGFILE, 8; # unlock the file
close LOGFILE;

You could enclose your form data elements in xml-ish tags
to make them easy to parse later or just delimit them with
pipes or some other infrequently used char. if you use
delimiters, be sure you do not print any into the LOGFILE
in the $contents.

'hope this helps...


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