Thanks, I will try your suggestion and let you know the results.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Jolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Horace Franklin Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: Help using %Hashes
> Yeah.
>
> You'll probably want to do something like Bob Showalter suggested:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use CGI;
>
> my $cgi = new CGI;
> my $name_from_input = $cgi->params("name");
> my $email_from_input = $cgi->params("email");
> my $message_from_input = $cgi->params("message");
>
> if (length($ENV{QUERY_STRING}) == 0){
> open (AFILE, "/tmp/filename.txt");
> ## place code here to write to file...you may access the
> ## $name_from_input, $email_from_input, $message_from_input
> variables .....
> close (AFILE);
> } else {
> print ("<h3>Hello!</h3>");
> print ("<form action=" . $ENV{HTTP_HOST} . $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} . "
> method='post'>");
> print ("<p><b>My name is</b>: <input type='text'
> name='name'/></p>");
> print ("<p><b>My E-mail is</b>: <input type='text'
> name='email'/></p>");
> print ("<p><b>Message</b>:</p>");
> print ("<p><textarea cols='30' rows='6' wrap='virtual'
> name='message'></p>");
> print ("<p>Type your message here.");
> print ("</textarea>");
> print ("<input type='submit'></p>");
> print ("</form>");
> }
>
> that will first display the form and then, when the submit button is
> pressed, the form will submit to itself and you may extract the
appropriate
> data using the CGI.pm module.
>
> If you are uncomfortable using (or don't have it installed) you may try to
> parse the name/value pairs in the $ENV{QUERY_STRING} variable using the
> split() command.
>
> thnx,
>
> ~j
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Horace Franklin Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jason Jolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Help using %Hashes
>
>
> > Jason,
> >
> > There is no prerequisite that causes me to use hashes.
> >
> > I am a novice trying to write a cgi script that can
> > be called by an html file, Once the script is called
> > it will open file(s), displays the form, receive
> > input from user, write the input to a file, close file(s),
> > and provide the user with a response.
> >
> > I thought using hashes are one way to accomplish
> > the above tasks.
> >
> > Is there a better way to accomplish the above task?
> >
> > Horace
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jason Jolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Horace Franklin Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: Help using %Hashes
> >
> >
> > > Horace,
> > >
> > > Are you unsure how to reference the information which will be posted
to
> > the
> > > URI kept by the '$url' value?
> > >
> > > I'll gladly help you through getting the post values into your
> > > program....I'm not sure the use of a hash will be necessary though.
Is
> > > there a prerequisite which is causing you to use a hash?
> > >
> > > thnx,
> > >
> > > ~j
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Horace Franklin Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:18 PM
> > > Subject: Help using %Hashes
> > >
> > >
> > > > Help!
> > > >
> > > > I need help using %hashes to receive input from the form below.
> > > >
> > > > What changes would I make to the syntax of the commented lines
> > > > below to do this?.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > my $form = <<E_FORM;
> > > > <h3>Hello!</h3>
> > > > <form action="$url" method="post">
> > > > # <p><b>My name is</b>: <input type="text" name="name"/></p>
> > > > # <p><b>My E-mail is</b>: <input type="text"
name="email"/></p>
> > > > <p><b>Message</b>:</p>
> > > > # <p><textarea cols="30" rows="6" wrap="virtual"
> > > > name="message"></p>
> > > > <p>Type your message here.
> > > > </textarea>
> > > > <input type="submit"></p>
> > > > </form>
> > > > E_FORM
> > > >
> > > > $form;
> > > >
> > > >
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