Re: Wont write to text file.

A couple observations:

Are you using use strict and use warnings? These are helpful in alerting you to undefined functions, variables etc.
param() only returns those variables that were sent via POST; so make sure you don't use GET in your HTML form (recognizable by URLs like http://server/myscript.cgi?q=CGI+programming) or use url_param()
Use a test script to see which parameters are passed to perl. See e.g. Dumping the CGI environment
Consider using CGI::Lite, http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CGI-Lite, it's faster than CGI.pm
Look for a way to dump the names of all variables that were posted by the browser (does param() do that? I don't know, I don't use CGI.pm) -- maybe you just misspelt the name in the HTML file.
Your use of $newtext is not really necessary -- why not just print FILE "$webpage1\n"; and use $webpage1 in the print statement later

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Re: Re: Wont write to text file. by chromatic (Archbishop) on Aug 01, 2002 at 14:50 UTC
param() does indeed return parameters from POST and GET. Since you don't use CGI.pm, please at least check the documentation if you're going to give advice about it.	[reply]
Re: Wont write to text file. by crenz (Priest) on Aug 01, 2002 at 15:10 UTC
Thanks for the hint. I was not sure, so I read the POD documentation, but could find no reference to what happens if you just call param() Or maybe I shouldn't RTFM without having a cup of coffee beforehand ;-)	[reply]