Re^4: Updated Button Question

It does redirect to another web page, but does not write the data

I am tryin the two script method, but it is not passing the data like I want. I did submit a new question on that also called Sending Data

Joseph A. Ruffino
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Gail Borden Public Library District
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Re^5: Updated Button Question by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 12, 2004 at 16:44 UTC
Gotcha! I was assuming you were getting the proper value into $datajoin somewhere in the code that wasn't included in the code sample. if (!(param())) { # Do stuff # By processing data # put up web page # with formatted data $datajoin =~ s/&/&/g; $datajoin =~ s/"/"/g; <form> <input type="hidden" name="datajoin" value="$datajoin"> <center><input type=submit value=Send name=S1> </center></form> } else { # When it is print # Redirect to another web page if (param('S1') eq "Send") { $datajoin = param('datajoin'); validate $datajoin open (BOBIN, ">>$datefile") \|\| die "Cannot Open File $datefile + for writing: $!"; # Open Data file print BOBIN $datajoin; print redirect("..."); } } [download] Be sure to validate the data before saving it, because the user can change it! You might want to look into sessions. With sessions, only a session id is passed to the user (instead of $datajoin). The data is stored locally.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^5: Updated Button Question
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 12, 2004 at 16:44 UTC

Gotcha! I was assuming you were getting the proper value into $datajoin somewhere in the code that wasn't included in the code sample.

if (!(param())) {
   # Do stuff
   # By processing data
   # put up web page
   # with formatted data 

   $datajoin =~ s/&/&amp;/g;
   $datajoin =~ s/"/&quot;/g;
   <form>
   <input type="hidden" name="datajoin" value="$datajoin">  
   <center><input type=submit value=Send name=S1>
   </center></form>
} else {
    # When it is print
    # Redirect to another web page
    if (param('S1') eq "Send") {
        $datajoin = param('datajoin');
        validate $datajoin
        open (BOBIN, ">>$datefile") || die "Cannot Open File $datefile
+ for writing: $!"; # Open Data file
        print BOBIN $datajoin;
        print redirect("...");
    }
}
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Be sure to validate the data before saving it, because the user can change it! You might want to look into sessions. With sessions, only a session id is passed to the user (instead of $datajoin). The data is stored locally.

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