Yeah, sending a file from the same form as some "text values" works fine. Have you investigated CGI.pm? You should.

You can use it to create the form for uploading the file (the form "enctype" has to be "multipart/form-data"). And then you can use it to proces the file upload, the title, and the description. 

use CGI;

my $query = new CGI;
my $fh = $query->upload('uploaded_file');

open OUTPUT, ">/foo/save" or die "Can't open: $!";
while (<$fh>) {
    print OUTPUT;
}
close OUTPUT or die "Can't close: $!";

my $title = $query->param('title');
my $description = $query->param('description');

# now write them to a file...

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CGI.pm also lets you access some metadata about the file, using the "uploadInfo" method. For more info, take a look at the CGI.pm docs.

In reply to Re: File Upload + recording by btrott
in thread File Upload + recording "metadata" by ritz0

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