hi!

i'm trying to write a cgi script in perl to serve wap pages. it shown an input field and a button. after the user has entered the text into the field and he pressed the button, the text is written in a file.
it doesn't work because i can't get the value of the input field into a local variable.

this is the script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI::WML;
$cgi = new CGI::WML;
print $cgi->header(),$cgi->start_wml();

print $cgi->card(-id=>"card1",-title=>"Command",content=>
$cgi->p($cgi->input(-name=>"q",-value=>"")).
$cgi->p($cgi->b("Press go")).
$cgi->do(-type=>"accept",-label=>"go",-content=>
$cgi->go(-method=>"post",-href=>"#card2")));

open (FILE,'>>','data.txt');
print FILE $cgi->param('q');
close(file);

print $cgi->end_wml();

any help?

Say your form input field is named "myField", try

print FILE $cgi->param('myField');

that is exactly what i have done. the input field is named q, and the line is
print FILE $cgi->param('q');
and it doesn't write anything in the file.

I think you need 2 separate scripts, one for the form and another to get form POST vars. Or you can
combine them in one script but you will have to test if the form was submited to parse the vars.

ok!

i made two scripts. sender.cgi reads the input and sends it to receiver.cgi. i have tested receiver.cgi by sending the parameter like this: http://192.168.0.2/receiver.cgi?q=test.
q arrives ok and its value is written to the file.

sender.cgi doesn't work. i think there is a problem in the go statement:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI::WML;
$cgi = new CGI::WML;
print $cgi->header(),$cgi->start_wml();
print $cgi->card(-id=>"card1",-title=>"Command",content=>
$cgi->p($cgi->input(-name=>"q",-value=>"")).
$cgi->p($cgi->b("Apasa go")).
$cgi->do(-type=>"accept",-label=>"go",-content=>
$cgi->go(-method=>"post",-href=>"http://192.168.0.2/receiver.cgi",-postfields=>'q')));

print $cgi->end_wml();

the -postfields property isn't working (when i run the script it doesn't say 'postfield' anywhere).
how do i send the value to the other script?

Why don't you write your form in simple wml ? Do you need it is dynamic ? If yes you have to
know how to build a workable static wml form anyway.