saving the form data into a .txt file

imran042 · 05-17-2012, 12:26 PM

how to save(perl /html /cgi script) upload details into a textfile by hitting the submit key.

below is my script:
how to save the form data into a txt file by pressing the submit key.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "content-type:text/html\n\n";

print <<END_HTML;
<form action="/cgi-bin/reply.pl" method="get">
<html>
<head>
<title>Form</title>
</head>
<body>

<fieldset>
<legend><h3>Personel details</h3></legend>
<br>
First name: <input type="text" name="firstname">
<br>
<br>
Last name: <input type="text" name="lastname">
<br>
<br>
Email Address:<input type="text">
<br>
<br>
Age Betweeen: <select>
<option>1-5</option>
<option>6-10</option>
<option>11-15</option>
<option>16-20</option>
<option>21-25</option>
<option>26-30</option>
<option>31-35</option>
<option>36-40</option>
<option>40-45</option>
<option>46-50</option>
</select>
<br>
<br>
Gender:<input type="radio" name="sex" value="male"> Male
<input type="radio" name="sex" value="female"> Female
<br>
<br>

City: <input type="text" name="city">
<br>
<br>
State: <input type="text" name="state">
<br>
<br>
Country:<input type="text" name="country">
<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">

</fieldset>
</body>

END_HTML

Kustom42 · 05-17-2012, 01:31 PM

Code:

open (MYFILE, '>>data.txt'); 
print MYFILE "data to write"; 
close (MYFILE);

Replace the data with your form variables on your reply.pl script that it gets posted to.

imran042 · 05-18-2012, 07:53 AM

whatever details are entered in the script form, should be automatically save in as a text file,
not by manually saving.

it should automatically save the form data into a text file, as soon as pressing the submit button.

Kustom42 · 05-18-2012, 01:48 PM

That is the code I gave you.. When they click submit it posts the data to your reply.pl script. Add lines similar to the code above to write those variables to a file.

Kustom42 · 05-18-2012, 01:53 PM

Here is a more indepth example I found on www.howtodothings.com:

Code:

<FORM ACTION="../cgi-bin/script.pl" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="fname">
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="lname">
...
</FORM>

&populatePostFields;  #Perl grabs all the post data into a hash
$firstName = $postFields{ "fname" }; #You pull what data you want and set it to a variable
$lastName = $postFields{ "lname" }; # same as previous line for a different form field

open (MYFILE, '>>data.txt');  #opens file data.txt to write to
print MYFILE "$firstName";  #Writes the variable $firstName
print MYFILE "$lastName";  #Writes the variable $lastName
close (MYFILE); #closes the file