script for logging to a file from html form

[sausage]

I there im new to perl coding and im looking for a script that can let me log the results of an html form to a file on my server. I have a few form mail scripts i have looked at but i really need it to log to a file and not email the results to myself. If anyone can help me i would be most grateful.
Thanks

Jim

[optimism_]

Hi.

Im a bit new to perl too, but not to comp programming in general :) I imagine the flow would be

To read in tha data
To open a file
To write/append the data
To Close the file
To write a response.

I think i would be right in saying that all of these are covered in the perl/cgi programming tutorials on webmonkey (http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey)

Have a look see!


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[ivy]

Hi sausage

You can use one of the mail-form scripts and cut it up a bit.

Remove the send mail lines and insert the following at the end of the script:


open (LOGFILE, ">> NAME_OF_FILE_YOU_WANT_TO_LOG_TO.txt") ;

flock(LOGFILE, 2) ; ##### LOCK - comment for locking on a non-Unix server.
seek(LOGFILE, 0, 2) ; ##### LOCK - comment for locking on a non-Unix server.

print LOGFILE "$companyname\t$sendername\t$senderemail\t$sendertele\t$comments\t$datetime\t$url\n" ;

flock(LOGFILE, 8) ; #### LOCK - comment for locking on a non-Unix server.

close (LOGFILE) ;





After print LOGFILE you will see $companyname and $senderemail etc. Replace these with whatever the names of your form fields are - so long as you also make sure they correspond with the rest of the perl script. After the first $, you must use t$. I think this puts in the tabs ((not sure but I know you need it!).

Hope this helps - I am not that good with perl, but I know this works for sure. I've added it to many perl scripts!

Don't foget to CHMOD the text file to 722 (all, write only, write only).

[sausage]

Thanks very much , I will go and try that and let you know how i get on.:) :D