Hello to all on the perl email list. I am new to this list and being a newbie, don't have much experience or knowledge of perl but have managed to modify my first simple perl script which sends information via email from an html form that I created and which gets filled out by the user. I was having problems with the script for months whereby the script was sending the email but very little of the information from the form would come through in the email until the other day when I was going through my script and noticed some print mail commands in my script and realized that an additional hand full print mail commands needed to be inserted. My script is doing what I want it to do now but I would like the perl script to somehow display an additional message on the users screen that they are sitting in and am not sure how to do this.
My perl question is, is there a simple way to display some text/message on the users screen such as your information has been sent. Thank You for joining the alumni community! We hope to see you at the next reunion. once they submit the form and if so, how would I accomplish the task of displaying a message. What code would I need to insert into my script. So when the user submits the information that they filled out on the form they remain on the same page. I would like the screen to look something like the following: Updating Your Alumni Mailing Address Information Page. First name: Last name: Married ladies: please enter your maiden name here. Street address: Apartment number: if applicable. City/Town: Province/State: Postal code: Email address: Home phone number: with area code - E.G. 201-555-1234 send button reset form button your information has been sent. Thank You for joining the alumni community! We hope to see you at the next reunion. I tried to setup a small text file in the same directory on the server where the script file email.pl resides called message.txt with the message contained in the file and attempted to use the print command in my script to display the message but obviously it didn't work. I also tried to use the open statement to read in the file and have it display on the users screen but that didn't work either. What am I doing wrong? I have tried to find some information reading perl documentation but haven't been able to find anything yet that remotely clearly explains how to display a message if all possible. I also tried to find information on the internet using google but not having to much luck. Any help? I would appreciate any help with my perl script problem. Thanks, David
