How do I do this using CGI ?

[AssFairy]

I have a web page that generates a string of hexadecimal characters when the surfer is browsing and I want to store them in a text file.

EG. http://mydomain.com/cgi.pl?AAC7EE

What I want to do is append a text file and add the "AAC7EE" or any other string after the ? to the file.

Any help is appreciated.

[hyper]

store the query string in a $variable
open a txt file and write the $variable in it

[AssFairy]

Originally posted by hyper
store the query string in a $variable
open a txt file and write the $variable in it

cool but how, I don't know jack about CGI

I already have the webpage that generates the text string I just need to know how to save all the info after the ? to a file when they click the link.

[NetRodent]

Which language are you trying to write it in?

[hudson]

Originally posted by AssFairy


cool but how, I don't know jack about CGI

I already have the webpage that generates the text string I just need to know how to save all the info after the ? to a file when they click the link.

yo...you need to learn perl than...not so hard

[AssFairy]

Originally posted by NetRodent
Which language are you trying to write it in?

Whatever is quickest and easiest

It used to be stored in a mysql database but this is no longer possible.

Whilst the surfer is browsing a string of data is generated and appears after the ? in their browser, I don't care how its done but I need to store that information in a plain asci file.

I was hoping this to be just 3 or 4 lines of CGI code

[icedemon]

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
if ($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}) {
	open(FILE, ">>file.txt") || die (print "$!\n");
	print FILE $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'} . "\n";
	close(FILE);
}

Here is some perl code you can use.

[AssFairy]

Originally posted by icedemon

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
if ($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}) {
	open(FILE, ">>file.txt") || die (print "$!\n");
	print FILE $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'} . "\n";
	close(FILE);
}

Here is some perl code you can use.

Many thanks I'll have a go at getting this to work

[hudson]

Originally posted by icedemon

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
if ($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}) {
	open(FILE, ">>file.txt") || die (print "$!\n");
	print FILE $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'} . "\n";
	close(FILE);
}

Here is some perl code you can use.

you can add to the code after the first print statement...for example:


print "<b>hello there</b>";

to print to the browser....just remember the semicolon to terminate the statement and to "escape" things like a quotation mark:

print "<a href=\"./dir/index.html\">home</a>";

see... add a backslash before the quotation mark: \"

[AssFairy]

It don't appear to be working, for some reason when I click the link I get redirected to my 404 page!!!

I used unix format when I uploaded the script and set the test.pl file and the file.txt to 666 (chmod)

[icedemon]

You need to chmod the test.pl to 755 if it's not set to that already. Show the link and I'll see what might be happening. You can also check your error log files to see what might be happening to.

[hudson]

probably has something to do with your directory not allowing a cgi type file. so it rejects the file and redirects you a la .htaccess

well, that's my guess...any others?

[AssFairy]

Originally posted by icedemon
You need to chmod the test.pl to 755 if it's not set to that already. Show the link and I'll see what might be happening. You can also check your error log files to see what might be happening to.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah baby that works FINE

Thanks for the help peeps I can get on with saving the world now

[hudson]

Originally posted by AssFairy
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah baby that works FINE

Thanks for the help peeps I can get on with saving the world now

cool beans...now you have experienced the life of a programmer

[AssFairy]

Originally posted by hudson


cool beans...now you have experienced the life of a programmer

I don't know about that but I think I had a small orgasm when I saw it work (at last)

[hudson]

Originally posted by AssFairy
I don't know about that but I think I had a small orgasm when I saw it work (at last)

yep...that's it...absolute terror followed by a small orgasm

[Rorschach]

and that aching feeling in your nuts like you can't sit still when it just won't fucking work

[hudson]

Originally posted by Rorschach
and that aching feeling in your nuts like you can't sit still when it just won't fucking work