--- Curtis Michelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a Perl newbie for sure. I recently subscribed to the list and
> this is my first post.
Welcome aboard. =o)
> . . .
> I'd like to try using Perl for a current client project. Situation
> is this:
> Web users need to hit an HTML form page, fill out the form, press
> "submit" and then the data needs to be formatted into either a comma
> or tab delimited text file and then emailed to a specific fixed email
> address. The backend Perl cgi code is what I need help with.
>
> Would anyone have suggestions on the best way for me to go about
> doing this with Perl? Is there some publicly available base code I
> could start from and then modify or tweak to fit my needs? Since I'm
> on a short timeline for the project, I'm open to hiring a Perl
> consultant to help me wrap this up quickly.
>
> Any thoughts?
Absolutely. use CGI.pm, which will automatically parse your form input
for you. It'll save you a lot of time. Also, try Mail::Sendmail. You'll
have to configure that, which isn't *too* bad, but then it's all pretty
simple.
e.g.:
#!/path/to/perl -w
use CGI;
use Mail::Sendmail;
my $q = new CGI; # reads and parses the form!
my @flds = $q->param;
my $msg;
for my $field (@flds) {
my $line = "$_\t" . $q->param($field) . "\n";
$msg .= $line;
}
sendmail( TO => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', # target email
From => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', # sender email
Message => $msg ) or die $Mail::Sendmail::error;
print "Message sent:\n$msg\n$Mail::Sendmail::log\n";
exit;
If you run into trouble the docs can't help you with, post here or
email me personally. =o)
Paul
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