Hello PMs,

I return for more quidance. I want to build a quick form to upload a file (and back up the file that was there before) and then go on to another form. Can I do this in one file? I just have the feeling I'm going down the wrong road. I will note that addind PMs or Mods is quite a process (I don't have control/access), so if you have a bare bones solution other than mine, I'm all keys. It will be ID/pass protected, but I'm all set there (didn't include it as it's not part of my question)

Here is what I have so far (psedo-ish) and I noted where I want the next from to be built, but I'm starting to get errors and feel the logic might be shaky. Thanks all!


-lT 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

 use CGI;
 use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
 $upload_dir = "/foo/bar/upload";

 $query = new CGI;

 $filename = $query->param("somexmlfile");
 #pass_word = $query->param("password"); will add later
 $filename =~ s/.*[\/\\](.*)/$1/;
 $upload_filehandle = $query->upload("somexmlfile");

 #cp here, probably will be mv
 exec "cp ../foo/bar/existing.xml existing.xml.BAK";
 
 open UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/$filename";

 binmode UPLOADFILE;

 while(<$upload_filehandle>){
   print UPLOADFILE;
 }

 close UPLOADFILE;

 print $query->header ( );
 print <<END_HTML
 
 <html>
 <h2>File Received</h2>
 
 ######################################
 #Can I build another HTML/CGI from from here?
 ######################################
 </html>

END_HTML

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Update: When I say build another CGI, what I am eventually doing is operations on the uploaded file based on a few simple inputs from the second form. Hope that will clarify things some.

In reply to Multiple forms in one CGI file? by lakeTrout

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