Re^6: Add timestamp to helpdesk form

Hmm that seems to have worked sort of but it gives me this error:

Status: 500 Content-type: text/html Software error:

Cannot open http://www.perl03.georgeself.com/cgi-bin/forms.txt: No such file or directory at helpdesk.cgi line 26.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (webmaster@perl03.georgeself.com), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

I made that file and it does exist so not sure what it is talking about or if I'm doing something wrong?

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Re^7: Add timestamp to helpdesk form by poj (Abbot) on Jul 04, 2014 at 20:26 UTC
The database location `$gbdata` needs to be a filepath/filename not a URL `my $gbdata="http://www.perl03.georgeself.com/cgi-bin/forms.txt";` Also the folder has to be writeable by the web server and normally cgi-bin folders are not for security reasons. If you are just learning/testing then try using the `/tmp` folder, same as the semaphone. `my $gbdata = "/tmp/forms.txt";` poj	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^8: Add timestamp to helpdesk form by csorrentini (Acolyte) on Jul 04, 2014 at 20:44 UTC
Yea thank you so much I literally figured it out right before coming back here. I just changed the name to forms.txt and it found it. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!	[reply]
Re^9: Add timestamp to helpdesk form by poj (Abbot) on Jul 04, 2014 at 21:03 UTC
Your next problem will be here `$type=<GB>; # Assumes that each entry is $prob=<GB>; # exactly 3-lines long... my $time=<GB>;` [download] because using `<textarea name="problem" rows="10 cols="40">` means the problem text may be more than 1 line. poj	[reply] [d/l] [select]