can't write form results to file

[hogtied]

Hey people, I'm having trouble here with Perl, CGI. It's an email address only.

The form spits out to the url [email protected]

Once i click on the submit button a error page comes back saying that i have a malformed header..

Heres my CGI code..

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'COTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split (/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs)
{
($name, $value) = split (/=/, $pair);
$email{$name} = $value;
}

$emailFile = "newsletter.txt";

open (FILE, ">>$emailFile");
print FILE "$email{'txtEmail'}";
close (FILE);

i know something is wrong.. im kinda new to this and learning.. Have bought a book called "Perl, CGI, and JavaScript" it's an OK book but it's not helping.. I got this code from the book and it resembles a lot of others codes out there on the web... SO....

Thanks,
Hogtied

[chrisvmarle]

You get the error "Malformed header" 'cuz there's no header at all. On the web you must send a header, as far as I know.
To send a simple HTML header add
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
anywhere to your script and see if that helps.

Mzzl, Chris

[hogtied]

well now i don't get the malformed header error but it doesn't write to the file either... do you have any idea why this might be.. The CGI folder does have read/write permissions. And I searched every website that showed you how to write to files. And my code is exactly like theirs with the changed variables of course...

[Calilo]

the script looks perfecly fine, perhaps you should try printing some text to the files like this,
print FILE "Try, TRy";
just to see if that part is working fine,

calilo

[hogtied]

ive entered the statment:

print FILE "Hello";

and it didn't write anything to the file called newsletter.txt which is in the same CGI folder... I called my web hosting company and they suggested that the code might be the probelm because they don't see any errors at their end.

I have no idea, and as far as i know this should work.... i even tried changing the 'CONTENT_LENGTH' to 'QUERY_STRING' and that didn't work....

Does anyone have any ideas...???

Thanks guys,
Hogtied

[sir pannels]

yeh that is deffo a permission problem..i just ran your script on my computer...and its fine....so make sure newsletter.txt is chmod to 777 ..you shouldnt need to chmod its dir but now and again i found i had to on diferent hosts.
sir p

[hogtied]

Thanks guys i happened to be a permission error.. Had to create a CGI Zone.. Well any way guys thanks for the help....


Thanks
Hogtied

[sir pannels]

ok thought it would be a permission thing...they so anoying hehe.
ok cool
no prob
sir p

[hogtied]

yeah thanks again sirP. Have another question though, I've have looked everywhere for this code and can't find it. Want, in perl, to set a variable to today's date. I thought it would be something like this

$date = new Date();

but it's not.. See I thought it would be the same as most languages. And I've looked everywhere to see how this would be done but no one explains it. Is there a way to get today's date or do you have to create a variable of today's date with javascript and send it to the CGI??

Thanks,
Hogtied

[hogtied]

Nevermind I finally found something at www.perl.com/cpan

But thanks anyway

Hogtied