Submit Visitor Info to text or hex file

[Malform11]

I'm sorry. It was your perl code. I named it:


Submitanswer.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);  # remove this after debugging the script

my $cgi     = CGI->new;
my %params  = $cgi->Vars;
my $title   = "Get Information From A URL";

print $cgi->header,
      $cgi->start_html($title),
      $cgi->h1($title),
      $cgi->hr;
      
foreach my $name ( keys %params ) {
    print $cgi->p("Name = $name, Value = $params{$name}\n");
}
print $cgi->end_html;

[FishMonger]

It works correctly for me.

Are you calling the script directly in the browser, or are you filling in the form fields on the html page and submitting the form?

[Malform11]

I go to the visitor form on one html page, called Visitor Form.html.
I submit info. I leave that page.
I open up my second web page with a secret name, that calls your perl routine. After clicking the button, it prints the heading and the horizontal row, but it doesn't print the info I submitted. I assume this page works and the other doesn't.

[FishMonger]

Why would you think that would do anything useful?

The Form.html page needs to submit the data directly to the perl script I provided, i.e., it's the script you point to in the action attribute of the form. Or, the script that it points to needs to save the data to a file or database and then some other script could read-in that data from that file or database.

[Malform11]

"Submit Visitor Info to text or hex file" was the title of this thread. That would have worked.

After a week i am advised that i am an idiot for thinking the perl was supposed to work.

If there is a way to make it work you are not going to tell me. Your sponsors sell visitor forms.

[FishMonger]

I did tell you what you needed to do (i.e., use the open function to open a filehandle and print the data to that filehandle), but due to the fact that you left out some very important details of what you were actually doing we ended up on a tangent.

Have you read the perldoc documentation that I pointed you to?

Do you still need help writing the data to the file? Which needs to be done by the script that the form is submitted to.

At this point, are looking to learn how to do this, or are you wanting someone else to write it for you?

[Malform11]

Thanks, I am starting to get this a little.
I think I debugged this, except line 16 gets error message I can't figure out.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);  # remove this after debugging the script

my $cgi     = CGI->new;
my %params  = $cgi->Vars;
my $title   = "Information From Visitors";

open(my $fh, ">>", "visitorinput.txt")# ">>" for append?
or die "cannot open > visitorinput.txt: $!";
 
foreach my $name (keys %params) {
    print my $fh->("Name"=$name,"Value"=%params{$name});#error here?
}
close(my $fh)
|| warn "close failed: $!";

[FishMonger]

print $fh "Name=$name,Value=$params{$name}\n";

You also need to take the 'my' off the close satement.

[Malform11]

I changed the code. I went to visitor form, and entered info. It came back with some message, not like the error message, saying request not fulfilled or something. I opened the text file and the info was there, no problem. I changed the permission, maybe that will stop the message.

Thank you for getting this to work....