I need to accept a form submission, capture the name of a file (name is passed in the cgi param), extract the user's email address from the form data, save the form data to a log file, attach the file whose name corresponds to the name passed in the cgi param and email it to the user.

I think I've captured and regexed the form data properly, I've written the data to a hash, and opened the pipe to sendmail. The questions are: are there any obvious problems in the code so far AND how the heck do you attach a file to sendmail ??



here's the code I have now .. with comments removed for space 

use strict;
use CGI;

$sendmail = '/usr/lib/sendmail';
$file = param('file');

$formdata=<STDIN>;
$formdata=~s/\s+$//;

foreach (split(/&/, $formdata))
 {
    ($name, $value)=split(/=/, $_);
    $name=~s/\+/ /g;
    $name=~s/%([0-9|A-F]{2})/pack(C,hex($1))/eg;
    $value=~s/\+/ /g;
    $value=~s/%([0-9|A-F]{2})/pack(C,hex($1))/eg;

$formash{$name} = $value;

 }

$receiver = $formash{email};

open(SENDMAIL, "|$sendmail") or die "Cannot open $sendmail: $!";

        print SENDMAIL "To: $receiver \n";
        print SENDMAIL "From: info\@constellar.com \n";
        print SENDMAIL "Subject: Whitepapers Request \n";
 
close(SENDMAIL);

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In reply to extract data from a form .. and attach a file in sendmail by csorensen

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