At 09:23 PM 3/11/02 +0000, Mariusz K wrote:
>Thank you very much for your response. Could you recommend any solution? I
>know the path where the file is sitting and I want to create a script that
>would automatically upload it. (I don't want the user to be bothered with
>entering the path each time.)
Don't know if you can automatically upload the file... sounds like a
security risk. But you can pre-populate the form element that they click
with something, I would think... try setting the VALUE attribute of the
INPUT field.
>Thank you,
>
>ps. You said: "you want to take this to the beginners cgi list"; isn't
>this the beginner's mailing-list? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Correct. But there is another list that focusses on CGI issues like this
one: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: uploading files
>>Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:17:24 -0800
>>
>>At 12:36 AM 3/11/02 -0600, Mariusz wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I wrote this simple script to upload files, but when I substitute
>>>param('uploadfile') with the actual path in double quotes it doesn't work
>>>that way. However, it works perfectly fine if I use the form to submit the
>>>path of the file through an html form (the way it is below). Can anyone
>>>help?
>>
>>You want to take this to the beginners-cgi list.
>>
>>The value returned from param() for a file upload is magical and evaluates
>>as the name of the file in a string context and a filehandle to the file
>>contents in IO context. You can't just replace it with a string.
>>
>>>my $file = param('uploadfile');
>>>
>>>open(UPLOAD, ">../employees/schedule.html") || Error();
>>>my ($data,$length,$chunk);
>>>while ($chunk = read ($file, $data, 1024)){
>>> print UPLOAD $data;
>>>}
>>>close(UPLOAD);
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Mariusz
>>
>>--
>>Peter Scott
>>Pacific Systems Design Technologies
>>http://www.perldebugged.com
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