okay this may seem like a simple problem but here it goes:
when running the the script below from the unix (mac osx) command line the "survey.txt" file is created and "this a test!!!" is written to the file. But when running it from a browser the file is Not created and "Browser test" is displayed in the browser.
That is a Frequently Asked Question:
perldoc -q "My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser"
So in essennce when running from a browser the file creation section of the script is being skipped over. Please, please, please, why is this happening, somebody? I've tried it on diffferent browsers - Mozilla, IE.
open(OUTFILE, ">>survey.txt");
You should *ALWAYS* verify that the file opened correctly.
open OUTFILE, '>>', 'survey.txt' or die "Cannot open 'survey.txt' $!";
Of course it would be more useful while developing your CGI program to see the error message in the browser so add these two lines:
use CGI qw/:standard/; use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';
print OUTFILE "this is a test!!!\n"; close(OUTFILE); print "<html>Browser test</html>\n";
John -- use Perl; program fulfillment
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