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[CGI] Form Help Please

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Hello-

I wrote a cgi script for a contact form and it isn't working.

I would like to know if anyone could offer me some help please?

Here's the html part of the form:

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<form action="cgi/gdform.cgi" method="post">

<font class="trudy_bluebodytext">

First Name:<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="first" SIZE="20"><br>

Last Name:<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="last" SIZE="20"><br>

Phone Number:<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="phone" SIZE="11"><br>

E-Mail:<input type="text" name="email" /><br>

Please type your message/question below:<br>

<TEXTAREA NAME="comment" ROWS="15 here" COLS="70 here"></TEXTAREA>

<br><br><center>

<INPUT TYPE="submit"><INPUT TYPE="reset">

</center>

</form>

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I don't think the problem is in the HTML...I think it's below in the actual script.

Here's the cgi script:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

@to = qw(

michael@blackwellmultimedia.com

trudy.krisher@sinclair.edu

);

$rootdir = "/cgi";

$dbase = "$rootdir/data/trudy.txt";

$date = `date \"+%d %h %Y\"`;

chop($date);

$time = 'date';

$cn = time;

$TITLE = "QCC: TrudyKrisher.com";

&initb;

#form_fields

$first = $FORM{'first'};

$last = $FORM{'last'};

$phone = $FORM{'phone'};

$email = $FORM{'email'};

$comment = $FORM{'comment'};

#check for missing field data

&missing_entry() unless $FORM{first};

&missing_entry() unless $FORM{last};

&missing_entry() unless $FORM{phone};

&missing_entry() unless $FORM{email};

&check_email;

#write the data to a file

&create_dbase;

#shift(@fields);

select(STDOUT); $| = 1;

&hdr;

print << "EOHTML";

<span class="hed">Thank you</span>

<P>Your request has been received.

EOHTML

&ftr;

# close(STDOUT);

if ($pid = fork) {

close(STDIN);

close(STDOUT);

} elsif ($pid == 0) {

#open(STDERR, ">>logs/fferrlog");

open(STDOUT, ">&STDERR");

warn "log test";

for $_to (@to) {

warn "log $_to\n";

next unless $_to;

unless (open(SM,"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -odb")) {

warn $!;

open(SM, ">&STDERR");

}

print SM $msg = "From: $email

Errors-To: $error

Return-Path: $error

To: $_to

Subject: TrudyKrisher.com

";

print SM "

Thank you for submitting your request. Your information has been recorded as the following.

Name: $FORM{first} $FORM{last}

Phone: $FORM{phone}

Email: $FORM{email}

Message/Question: $FORM{comment}

Thank you!

Trudy Krisher

www.trudykrisher.com

";

close(SM);

warn "to: $_to, from: $from, date: ".localtime()."\n";

}

}

else {

print "<HR><P>\n";

print "Form input was not processed. Please mail your ";

print "remarks to $to_field\n";

}

sub create_dbase {

open(DBASE, ">>$dbase") || die "I can't create $dbase\n";

print DBASE "$FORM{first}|$FORM{last}|$FORM{phone}|$FORM{email}|$FORM{comment}EOF\n";

close(DBASE);

}

sub email_error {

$url= "http://www.trudykrisher.com/error.html";

print "Location:$url\n\n";

exit;

}

sub missing_entry {

$url= "http://www.trudykrisher.com/required.html";

print "Location:$url\n\n";

exit;

}

sub check_email {

if ($email =~ /(@.*@)|(\.\.)|(@\.)|(\.@)|(^\.)/ ||$email !~ /^.+\@(\[?)[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$/) {

&email_error;

}

else {

return 1;

}

}

sub initb {

if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') {

read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});

}

@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);

foreach $pair (@pairs) {

($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);

next if $name eq "name";

$value =~ tr/+/ /;

$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

$value =~ s/^\s+//;

$value =~ s/\s+$//;

$value =~ s/[\n]/ /g;

$value =~ s/[\r]/ /g;

$value =~ s/\t+/ /g;

$value = "yes" if $value eq "value";

if ($value ne "") {

if ($name eq 'msga') {

$FORM{$name} .= $value."\t";

}

elsif ($name eq 'msg') {

$FORM{$name} .= "\t". $value;

}

elsif ($name eq 'room_date') {

$FORM{$name} .= " ". $value;

}

else {

$FORM{$name} = $value;

}

push(@fields, $name);

}

}

}

sub hdr {

print "Content-type: text/html\n";

print <<"EOHTML";

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">

<title>THANK YOU</TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY>

<P><CENTER>

<!--START CONTENT-->

Trudy Krisher

EOHTML

}

########################

sub ftr {

print << "EOHTML";

<!--END CONTENT-->

</CENTER>

</BODY>

</HTML>

EOHTML

}

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Any help you may offer would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.

To get ahold of me personally, please email Michael@BlackwellMultimedia.com

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If the script runs but doesn't grab the form fields, try changing the method=... line in your HTML to have POST in all capitals, as you compare it to "POST" later on in the cgi script:

if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') {

Also, use code tags

Otherwise, give a better explanation as to the problem.

XgD

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