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Form to file program

 


siceman105
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Jul 26, 2000, 5:33 AM

Post #1 of 12 (7654 views)
Form to file program Can't Post
Please help!
I need a program that takes input from a form and writes it to a text file. Thing is I want the contents of the text file overwritten completely each time. So that only the last thing submitted is every shown in the file.

Anyone help please?


Kanji
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Jul 26, 2000, 6:32 AM

Post #2 of 12 (7654 views)
Re: Form to file program [In reply to] Can't Post
With very little in the way of error or sanity checking ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans serif">code:</font><HR>

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI qw/ :standard /;
use CGI::Carp qw/ fatalsToBrowser /;

my $file = "/tmp/file.mine";

print header;

if ( param('content') ) { open FILE, "> $file" or die "Can't open $file: $!";
print FILE param('content');
close FILE;

print "File overwritten ...", hr;
} elsif ( param ) {
print "Nothing to write ...", hr;
}

print start_form,
textarea( -name => 'content',
-force => 1, -default => "",
-rows => 10, -cols => 60 ),
submit( -value => 'Overwrite' ),
end_form;</pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


siceman105
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Jul 26, 2000, 11:35 AM

Post #3 of 12 (7654 views)
Re: Form to file program [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi, I tried to run the program and got the following error message:

Execution of run.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.

Please help!

Thanks

Sice


Kanji
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Jul 26, 2000, 11:44 AM

Post #4 of 12 (7654 views)
Re: Form to file program [In reply to] Can't Post
And the compilation problems were...?


Cretep
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Jul 26, 2000, 5:19 PM

Post #5 of 12 (7654 views)
Re: Form to file program [In reply to] Can't Post
Try using the full path to the file not the relative path so it would look like /server/siceman105/html/cgi-bin/stuff.txt


siceman105
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Jul 27, 2000, 2:56 PM

Post #6 of 12 (7654 views)
Re: Form to file program [In reply to] Can't Post
where would I look for this info? Im kinda inexperienced!

The script is at
http://questserver.hypermart.net/secure/cgi-bin/maintain/run.cgi

Thanks

Sice


mike
User

Jul 27, 2000, 3:07 PM

Post #7 of 12 (7654 views)
Re: Form to file program [In reply to] Can't Post
Hello,

There are a lot of programs in the perlarchive that can do this for you. You can modify a few to look how you want too. But anyway what exactly was the complication error?


- Mike

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siceman105
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Jul 28, 2000, 12:12 AM

Post #8 of 12 (7654 views)
Re: Form to file program [In reply to] Can't Post
yeah I know there are some programs that take input from a form and write it to a file, but I need one that makes sure its a complete overwrite.

As for the error, I have no idea, thats the message that came up, never seen a message like that before, usually its an Error 500, but not with this script!


Cretep
User

Jul 28, 2000, 12:58 AM

Post #9 of 12 (7654 views)
Re: Form to file program [In reply to] Can't Post
Well your host should have this info on ther FAQ or ask tech support. This may be a dumb question but is the script chmod 755?


randor
User

Jul 28, 2000, 9:44 AM

Post #10 of 12 (7654 views)
Re: Form to file program [In reply to] Can't Post
try this one:

make a form with the following fields:
NAME
ADDRESS
PHONE

and send the form to the script.

#!/usr/bin/perl


$file = 'test.txt';


&get_form_data; # parse arguments from post
@ARGV = split(/\\*\&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});
$ARGV[0] =~ s/\W//g;

sub get_form_data {
$buffer = "";
read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs=split(/&/,$buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs)
{
@a = split(/=/,$pair);
$name=$a[0];
$value=$a[1];
$value =~ s/\+/ /g;
$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
$value =~ s/~!/ ~!/g;
$value =~ s/[\n\r]/ /sg; #remove \n
$value =~ s/\[\]//g; #remove []
push (@data,$name);
push (@data, $value);
}
%form=@data;
%form;
}

&error("$file") unless (open FILE, ">$file");
print FILE "$form{'NAME'}\n$form{'ADDRESS'}\n$form{'PHONE'}\n";
close FILE;

sub error {
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "An Error occured in the $_\n";
}


this will replace the file each time, to edit from this just replace the part of each $form{'HERE'} to suit your form.

hope this helps.



siceman105
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Jul 31, 2000, 12:29 AM

Post #11 of 12 (7654 views)
Re: Form to file program [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi, I tried this, but I keep getting Error 500, saying that the script has a premature end to its headers!

I made sure I chmoded to 755!

What could the prob be?

Thanks

Sice


Kanji
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Jul 31, 2000, 8:17 AM

Post #12 of 12 (7654 views)
Re: Form to file program [In reply to] Can't Post
The error that's displayed on the page itself is useless: you need to look in your server's log(s) if you want anything remotely helpful.

If you don't have that capability, ask the server's administrators or help staff to do so for you.

More than likely, its something extremely stupid like a wrong path to perl or you uploading the CGI in binary format rather than ASCII.

 
 


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