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Hi all,
just need some help on my coding. I cant figure out what i'm doing wrong as far as i can see it should be working....
It s a very basic guestbook form and the cgi script seems to work but for some reason my reply page won't show up????

the form:
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  1. <html>
  2. <head></head>
  3. <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
  4.  
  5. <h1>A Simple Guestbook</h1>
  6.  
  7. <form method="post" action="first.cgi">
  8.  
  9. <h4>Name</h4>
  10. <p><input name="name" type="text" size="50" 
  11.  
  12. value="Random Person">
  13.  
  14. <h4>Email</h4>
  15. <p><input name="email" type="text"  size="50" 
  16.  
  17. value="someone@someplace.com.au">
  18.  
  19. <h4>Your Comments</h4>
  20. <p>
  21. <textarea name="comment" rows="3" cols="50" 
  22.  
  23. wrap="virtual">
  24. Enter text here...
  25. </textarea>
  26.  
  27. <p><input type="submit" value="Submit"> 
  28. <input type="reset"  value="Clear Form">
  29.  
  30. </form>
  31. </body></html>

the cgi script:
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  1. #!/usr/bin/perl
  2. #   Guest book reply and storage script
  3. #
  4. #   Start by defining the source and target
  5. source	reply.tpl
  6. target	STDOUT
  7. open	all
  8. # Define default values for the variables
  9. var	name	Fred Nurk
  10. var	comment	Hello World
  11. var	email	fnurk@csu.edu.au
  12. # Now do the processing
  13. form
  14. cgi
  15. xmlsub
  16. #  Close the files 
  17. close	source
  18. # The following lines write the data to a file
  19. source	guestbook.tpl
  20. target	data.xml
  21. open	all
  22. xmlsub
  23. close	all
  24. #
  25. # End of the guestbook script

If any one can help me out, it would be much appreciated.

Cheers
syd
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Re: guestbook cgi script won't return reply page????

That's not a perl script; that's a bunch of tab separated values.
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Re: guestbook cgi script won't return reply page????

is it?? i'm don't really know what i'm doing either way... thats how my teacher tells me its done (atleast something like that)
don't surpose you can tell me how to write a cgi script for a guestbook then??

cheers
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Re: guestbook cgi script won't return reply page????

Learn Perl, and then replace the above description of a program's layout with actual code.
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