I've "discovered" the many variants of fileupload.cgi unfortunetly it just lets a users choose a file and upload it - not what I'd like. I need a script that handles 3 fields; a TITLE (text field), a CATEGORY (text field), and the "choose-file-to-upload" field. Simultaneously I would hope that the 2 text fields are parsed and written to a text file and the choosen file gets uploaded to it's place. I've tried looking at the various scripts to see my options in adapting the script. Unfortunetly I'm not really at the level to understand everything that is going on or at least the more critical components. I understand I could just have two forms but then I wouldn't be able to link CATEGORY and TITLE to what the user would upload later. Is it impossible to send binary data+text values to a script and have the script parse it OK? Am I'm missing something...? Well, besides more Perl knowledge :)

In reply to File Upload + recording "metadata" by ritz0

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