textarea

[Booooze]

Hi again.
i found somemore code, and this time, it take all of the info from a textarea, which is what i need. but, when i run it, it gives me an error 500 again, but the data still writes. what does that mean? any ideas, and also, how can i get it to start a new line? thx

#!C:\Perl\bin

use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw[fatalsToBrowser];
my $q = new CGI;
my $record = $q->param('text_field');
open(OUTFILE, ">>output.txt") or die "Can't open output.txt: $!";
print OUTFILE $record;
close OUTFILE;

[furious70]

so it writes everything you want to output.txt?

You aren't telling it anything to display after you do this. That should result in just a blank page being loaded, not an error however

[CyCo]

Booooze, as furious70 has pointed out, the program is doing just as it is written; writing to a file. You have no other task and since you aren't printing any header information, the script will die 500 error.

new line would be like so:

print OUTFILE "$record\n";

or

print OUTFILE $record . "\n";

now, every new record will be appended as a new line

[Booooze]

allrighty, the new line thing works, thats good, thank you for that guys, just one more thing, how can i make it go to a ceratin page when its succesful, and a different page when it fails, thank you

[ray326]

You send a redirect header back to the browser. I think CGI.pm encapsulates that action so just search its docs for 'redirect'.

[furious70]

from the cgi.pm doc:


print $query->redirect(-uri=>'http://somewhere.else/in/movie/land',
-nph=>1);




The -nph parameter, if set to a true value, will issue the correct headers to work with an NPH (no-parse-header) script. This is important to use with certain servers, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, which expect all their scripts to be NPH.

[Booooze]

thannks alot guys! this script is really important to my site, and now it works! thanks a bunch