Gossamer Forum: General: Perl Programming: How do you use data from another file(.txt) in a cgi file?

Jun 18, 1999, 7:47 PM

niteridarz

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Jun 18, 1999, 7:47 PM

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How do you use data from another file(.txt) in a cgi file?

Like if I wanted file CGI-a to print file data to data.txt. Then I want file CGI-b to get the data from data.txt that file CGI-a sent to it, and then display that data how it should be displayed to an HTML file,(like a counter or a banner rotator that stores the URL of the banners and displays it as an image) how would that code look?
I am trying to have a banner rotator have the admin file add the URL of the banners the admin entered to a form, then the form sends the data to a .txt or a log file. Then I want a display file to gather the info from the .txt file and print it to a web page.

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Patrick Chukwura
Nytesoft WebSolutions
nytesoft.hypermart.net

Jun 19, 1999, 7:49 AM

niteridarz

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Jun 19, 1999, 7:49 AM

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Re: How do you use data from another file(.txt) in a cgi file? In reply to

does anyone know the answer?

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Patrick Chukwura
Nytesoft WebSolutions
nytesoft.hypermart.net

Jun 21, 1999, 5:27 AM

ChrisE

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Jun 21, 1999, 5:27 AM

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Re: How do you use data from another file(.txt) in a cgi file? In reply to

To write files from cgi-a:

Code:
sub write_file{ 
#--------------------------------------------------------- 
#write files 
# 


$in{'info_from_form'} =~ s/\n/<br>/g;##converts line breaks to <br> tags 

open(MYFILE, ">/path/to/text_file.txt"); 

print MYFILE $in{'info_from_form'}; 

close(MYFILE); 
}

To open the file from cgi-b:

Code:
open(MYFILE, "/path/to/text_file.txt"); 

print qq|Print all of your HTML formatting here. You can also use varialbles|; 

while (<MYFILE> ) { 
	print $_; 
	} 
print qq|Also print here to close html tags|; 

	close(MYFILE);

If this file contains multiple lines, you may say $line=0
and use a foreach loop. In this case you wouldn't convert line breaks to <BR> tags until you open it.

Hope this helps..