NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE BLASS WITH ASK THE EXPERTS 08/30/04 Today's focus: Saving Web survey data to a file
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass offers advice on how to ��save Web survey data to a file * Links related to Ask the Experts * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Statscout Blanket Network Performance Monitoring Monitor your entire network every 60 seconds with minimal impact on the network. Businesses and organizations seeking detailed performance and troubleshooting reporting on networks of 1000 to 200,000 network interfaces in size will benefit substantially from using Statscout. Request your 30-day trial now, click here http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=78742 _______________________________________________________________ IS SECURITY RIPE FOR OUTSOURCING? Security demands for online applications such as e-commerce and Web services are prompting more corporate customers to hand off security functions - such as intrusion detection and firewalls - to outside service providers. Find out if security should be outsourced in this Network World article: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=78224 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Saving Web survey data to a file By Steve Blass An old survey form submitted through a Perl script called FormMail sends the survey data to an administrator in e-mail, and we want to store the data to a file instead. How can we do that in Perl? FormMail can be modified to save submitted data to a comma-separated value (CSV) file, in addition to sending e-mail, by adding a few reasonably simple commands to the script. First, get a copy of the FormMail.pl script to work with. If you don't have access to the copy on your server, you can download it from Matt's Script Archive ( <http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html> ). Open the script in a text editor and look for the "send_mail" subroutine by searching for "sub send_mail". Four or five lines below that, you will see open(MAIL,"|$mailprog"); add the line open(CSV,">>mydata.csv"); immediately below that. Search for the line close(MAIL); and add a line that says close(CSV); immediately below it. Then for every line in the send_mail subroutine that begins with "print MAIL ...", create a duplicate immediately below it with "MAIL" replaced by "CSV." FormMail will append the submitted data to the CSV file, and send an e-mail when a survey form is received. _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Steve Blass Blass is a network architect at [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Houston. 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