Hello Monks!

this is probably a simple question, but im stressed out from struggling with it all day!

basically im trying to get perl to function when the form below is activated 

<form method="post" action="/xampp/cgi-bin/feedback.cgi">

Your name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
Your email: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
Your comment: <textarea name="comment"></textarea><br>

<input type="submit">
</form>

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However the browsers try and open the file i.e. save it! Rather then XAMPP say execute it! the actual code for the perl is below! 
 #!C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

# The following accepts the data from the form and splits it into its 
+component parts

if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') {

    read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
    
    @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
    
    foreach $pair (@pairs) {
        ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
        $value =~ tr/+/ /;
        $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
        $FORM{$name} = $value;
    }



# Then sends the email 

open (MESSAGE,"| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t");

    print MESSAGE "To: you\@example.com\n"; # Don't forget to escape t
+his @ symbol!
    print MESSAGE "From: " . $FORM{name} . ", reader\n";
    print MESSAGE "Reply-to: " . $FORM{email} . "(" . $FORM{name} . ")
+\n";
    
    print MESSAGE "Subject: Feedback from $FORM{name} \n\n";
    
    print MESSAGE "$FORM{name} wrote:\n\n";
    print MESSAGE "Comment: $FORM{comment}\n\n";
    print MESSAGE "Sent by: $FORM{name} ($FORM{email}).\n";

close (MESSAGE);

&thank_you; #method call
} 



#The code then goes on to generate the thank-you page

sub thank_you {

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print <<EndStart;

    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Thank You</title>
    </head>
    
    <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
    
    <h1>Thank You</h1>
    
    <p>Your feedback has been received. Thanks for sending it.</p>
    
    <hr>
    
    
EndStart

    print "<p>You wrote:</p>\n";
    print "<blockquote><em>$FORM{comment}</em></blockquote>\n\n";
    
print <<EndHTML;
    
    </body>
    </html>

EndHTML

exit(0);
}

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this is an example from http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/examples/cgiformmailer.html, I thought it would be nice and simple im never right! help me please!

bogglemaster89 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- hay, Thanks for your advice, im using localhost XAMPP to run my perl, it works with certain things, just not when I press the submit button, I can run it directly in Strawberry Perl and it works fine. I dont know how to configure xampp....does anyone? This is sorted now; it was to do with quite a few things server, configuration, problems with XAMPP, file locations etc etc. Sorted now and ive even got forms to work and login (without a session)! Thanks, bogglemaster89

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