How to write form to file

[breagan1]

I have created the following form (layout not tweaked yet). It sends out to email but I haven't figured out how to also have it write the form results to a tab deliniated text file. I've tried several codes. This is for a nonprofit site I work on.

Here's the link to it:
http://www.nysboc.com/cgi-bin/conference.cgi
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Code Attached.

[acoder]

Is this text file on the server?

[breagan1]

It is in my /cgi-bin/data folder. It doesn't have to be a text file, I just want to be able to output to a file that I can then use to bring the data in to Excel or Access.

[acoder]

In that case, I think you'll find better help in the Perl forum (to which I've moved this thread).

[KevinADC]

basic method for appending/writing data to a file:

open(FH, ">>path/to/filename.txt") or die "Can't open path/to/filename.txt: $!";
print FH "stuff you want to print here";
close FH;

The code you posted is fairly ancient perl code. Using the CGI module would be a better solution, that way you can at least use some basic security such as disabling file uploading and limiting the amount of data that can be sent via the form. The script you have looks like it will work but you may run into problems if bots start sending spam or malicious users try sending junk to the server.