guestbook help

**marcusami** · 07-03-2004, 11:15 PM

hey im trying to make a real simple guestbook jus to learn and im having alot of troulbes getting things to be displayed ect. take a look

main part of guestbook.html

HTML Code:

<TABLE BORDER=0 width=100%> 
<FORM ACTION="http://localhost/cgi-bin/getlog.cgi" METHOD="post"> 

<TR><TD> First Name  <TD> <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="First" SIZE=25> 
<TR><TD> Comments  <TD> 
<TR><TD COLSPAN=2><TEXTAREA NAME="comments" ROWS=6 COLS=80></TEXTAREA> 
<TR><TD><TD> <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Send my comments"> 
</FORM> 
</TABLE>

guestbook.cgi

PHP Code:


			
#!C:\Perl\bin\perl -wT



open(LOGFILE, ">>guestbook.log"); 



$newline=join('::',@value); 



print LOGFILE ("$newline\n"); 

close LOGFILE; 



print "<BODY BGCOLOR=\'BEIGE\'><H1>Thank you.  Your comments have been added</H1>";

and my guestcook.log

First::Comments

sry its so big can u help?

**marcusami** · 07-07-2004, 04:43 AM

come on does ne one got ne idea ???? plz

**Kyrnt** · 07-07-2004, 12:06 PM

marcusami,

It might be tough to get a response to a CGI question in the PHP forum. I'll move this thread to Coding - All the Rest to try to get a better response.

**scottfree** · 07-08-2004, 06:30 AM

Hi there, I hope I can be of a little help.
Firstly under php code, you have a perl source code, I am not sure if this works.
Secondly, the first line in the perl document has an absolut path to the C: and I think this should be "#!/usr/bin/perl -wT" as this won´t be running locally, but on a server.
You also have "<FORM ACTION="http://localhost/cgi-bin/getlog.cgi" METHOD="post">" this address is absolute and you should stay away from absolut url´s as this will only work on your localhost and if you use it anywhere else, you will have to change the code.
try using "<FORM NAME="newGBentry" ACTION="/getlog.cgi" METHOD="post">"
Names are a good thing to use for forms, especially when you have more than on form in a document.

I hope this will help you a little bit, just wanted to add my two cents.
Gook luck.

**SN3** · 07-08-2004, 12:11 PM

Does it display aything at all?

**marcusami** · 07-08-2004, 05:32 PM

It doesnt really show ne of the text that im entering, but it will print out "First Comment" or "Thank you. Your comments have been added"
and i jus noticed i never showed the getlog coding maybe somehtng wrong n there, also thank you for the help, i changed them to .pl's buti have to use full addresses becuz im using a local server on my computer, and it seems to forget that if i dont and writes out the code itself, but thanks alot

this is my getlog.pl

#!C:\Perl\bin\perl -wT

use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);

open(LOGFILE, "guestbook.log");
@entries = <LOGFILE>;
close LOGFILE;

print "<BODY bgcolor=beige>\n";
print "<TABLE>\n";

foreach $line (@entries) {
@fields = split(/::/,$line);
print "<TR><TD>$fields[0] $fields[1]<TD>$fields[9]\n";
};

print "</TABLE>\n";