i'm trying to find a way to have a simple input box on my site, all i want is to have a box where a user can input whatever they like and then click a submit button and have it save that to the end of a file.
problem is i don't know the terminology to search for this.
please help
thanks :)
alienlinux 3 Junior Poster in Training
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
This is easialy possible.
You will need to use a server side scripting language such as ASP.NET or PHP - plain html or client-side scripts like javascript just dont cut it.
alienlinux 3 Junior Poster in Training
i can't use php, i installed it, /server-status says its running ok but it doesn't serve the pages correctly, it just shows the code. still havn't solved that. i have python and perl installed so cgi would be cool, my problem is finding a snippet to start me off. something to give me the basics and i can't find anything about it. i had my son searching google with me earlier for like 2 hours or more and he was getting all mad about it lol. couldn't find a thing except some pre-done things with tonnes of options and you have to register for it. i just want something simple so i can learn from it and add to it. any links would be awesome, thanks
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
is this on windows or linux?
php requires editing to apcahe.conf etc... to work
to make a text box put data into a text file you could modify a flat file guestbook script
~s.o.s~ 2,560 Failure as a human Team Colleague Featured Poster
You just have to accept the user input, send the data to a script on the server (python or perl) which would append the data to a file which already exists on the server.
Maybe you should start off with this if you plan on using CGI with Python or this for CGI with Perl. I personally haven't done any of this so don't know a lot but the links should suffice the purpose.
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