Saving a file to a Particular Server Location

[Chittaranjan]

Hi All,

I want to save a file in a given location in server which takes data from my form and save that as a tab separated *.txt file, where I am able to generate the tsv file but to save I am not able to do. I want while I will hit submit then it should save that file to the location I want by taking all the data. If any kind of help then highly acceptable.

Thanks and Regards,
Chittaranjan :)

[KevinADC]

If using the CGI module (which you should be) read the CGI documentation:

perldoc CGI module

[Chittaranjan]

Kevin,

Thank you a lot for your quick response and I am able to save the file to the server but now the problem is that after saving the file I want to make the form stay at the last position but it is going to a new blank screen any help please....

Thanks,
Chittaranjan :)

[KevinADC]

I will need to see your code if you want help.

[Chittaranjan]

Yes I know if I can able to show you the code then that will help me but that is a very big file how to show at here I am not able to understand after all I am having some part of the functions I have hope that will work.

if ( $q->param('confirm') ) {
 
    if ( $self->{'download'} ) {
        my $no = $q->param("noOfItems");
        my $tloc = $q->param("noOfLocations");
        # send the file to user
        print $thisForm->processFormFinalDeliverData( $no, $tloc );
        exit 1;
    }
 
} elsif ( $q->param('confirmsend') ) {
    if ( $self->{'download'} ) {
        my $no = $q->param("noOfItems");
        my $tloc = $q->param("noOfLocations");
        my $upload_dir = "/autoweb/data/ess/MMCXTEST/forms";
 
        # send the file to user
        #my $data = $thisForm->processFormFinalDeliverData( $no, $tloc );
        #&downloadFileSend( $self->{'formid'}, $data, $uid );
        #my $act = "process";
        #$thisForm->onSend( $self->{'formid'}, $no, $tloc, $act );
        #print $thisForm->processFormFinalDeliverData( $no, $tloc );            
        my @success = ();
        my $tsvdata = $thisForm->processFormFinalDeliverData( $no, $tloc );
        my $filename = &downloadFileSend( $self->{'formid'}, $uid );
        $filename =~ s/.*[\/\\](.*)/$1/;
 
        open UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/$filename" or die "Can't open $filename: $!";
        print UPLOADFILE "$tsvdata";
        close (UPLOADFILE) || die "Can't close $filename";
        #$thisForm->onSend();
        if (-s "$filename" >= 0) {
            $thisForm->onSend();
        }
        #print $q->header('text/html'),
        #$q->start_html(-title=>'Thanks!',bgcolor=>'#FFFFFF');
        #if (@success) {
        #    print qq~<h3>@{[scalar @success]} files successfully uploaded:</h3>~;
        #}
        exit 1;
    }
}
 

Here are two button calls where I am doing the file download in the first
if ( $q->param('confirm') )
That works fine which allow me to save the file to my local system with the dialog box for open or save. But in the second I want to save the file to the server. Where it saves that but after saving the file it takes the page to a new blank screen where I want to stay at the confirm screen.
Here are the code I think having some relation to that.

sub downloadFileName {
    warn 'downloadFileName';
    my $fId = shift(@_);
    my ( $sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year ) = localtime time;
    if ( $mon < 10 ) {
        $mon = "0" . ( $mon + 1 );
    } else {
        $mon = $mon + 1;
    }
    if ( $mday < 10 ) {
        $mday = "0" . $mday;
    }
    my $opfile = sprintf "%s_%s%s%s%s%s%s.txt",$fId,( $year + 1900 ),$mon,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec;
 
    return $opfile;
}
 
=item downloadFileSend
 
Generate a file in /autoweb/data/ess/MMCXTEST/forms directory and
with the user id with the file name for the Sent file
 
=cut
 
sub downloadFileSend { warn 'downloadFileSend';
    my $fId = shift(@_);
    #my $data = shift(@_);
    my $uid = shift(@_);
    #my $upload_dir = "/autoweb/data/ess/MMCXTEST/forms";
    my ( $sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year ) = localtime time;
    if ( $mon < 10 ) {
        $mon = "0" . ( $mon + 1 );
    } else {
        $mon = $mon + 1;
    }
    if ( $mday < 10 ) {
        $mday = "0" . $mday;
    }
    my $opfile = sprintf "%s_%s_%s%s%s%s%s%s.txt",$uid,$fId,( $year + 1900 ),$mon,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec;
 
    #my $filename = $opfile;
    #$filename =~ s/.*[\/\\](.*)/$1/;
    #open UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/$filename" or die "cannot open $filename: $!";;
    #print UPLOADFILE "$data";
    #close UPLOADFILE;
    return $opfile;
}
 
sub extraheaders {
    warn 'extraheaders';
    my $self = shift;
    my ($q) = @{$self}{'query'};
    my %headers;
    if (defined($q->param('confirm'))) {
        $headers{'-attachment'} = &downloadFileName($self->{'formid'});
        return %headers;
    } #elsif (defined($q->param('confirmsend'))) {
    # $headers{'-attachment'} = &downloadFileName($self->{'formid'});
    # return %headers;
    #}
    else {
        $self->SUPER::extraheaders(@_);
    }
}
 
=item contenttype($q,$a)
 
contenttype is uses to set the MIME content-type HTTP header.
set based on the request parameters - when a file download is requested
 
=cut
 
sub contenttype { warn 'contenttype';
    my $self = shift;
    my $q = shift;
    my $a = shift;
 
# initialize the state
    $self->initializeProcess($q);
 
    if ($self->{'download'}) {
        return "text/plain";
    }
 
    $self->SUPER::contenttype(@_);
}
 
 

Hope this much will help me for shutting out the problem.

Thanks,
Chittaranjan

[KevinADC]

Sorry, I can't tell by looking at that code. If you want to display the confirmation page you either need to redirect to that page or manually print it out to the screen.

[Chittaranjan]

Sorry, I can't tell by looking at that code. If you want to display the confirmation page you either need to redirect to that page or manually print it out to the screen.

Thanks,

I will try to figure out a way to solve you as reference to your suggestion.

Chittaranjan:)