Read/Modify Files with a form
I'm looking for a script that places the input of a form to a html file but I should be able to "read" the html file again with the script and add/remove some entries of it. I'm quite new with CGI and I don't know if this is possible. Could you please help me?
Thanks
Dieter
Ken Elliott posted this at 00:23 — 27th June 2000.
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Joined: Jun 1999
I have created similar scripts recently and the method that I use is to open the file that is to be edited into a textfield.
print "<form method=\"POST\" action=\"cgi-bin/addpage.cgi\">";
print "<textarea name=\"page\">";
open (PAGE, "< ../page.html");
@contents = <PAGE>;
close (PAGE);
foreach $line(@contents) {
print "$line";
}
print "</textarea>";
print "<input type=\"submit\">";
This code will open the specified page into the forms textarea for editing. Then you have a form which I named "addpage.cgi" that will parse the form input and recreate the page overwriting the old contents.
I don't know of a script in any of the resources that will do what you need. If I did I wouldn't have created my own
.
Hope that helps some.
VulKen
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Dieter posted this at 09:21 — 27th June 2000.
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Joined: Jun 2000
thanks, i'll check it out right away
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