I am creating a html form that will appear on a localhost site i.e. there will be no internet connection. This form is intended to take contact details from people visiting me at a display.

Once the visitors have entered the details and pressed submit I would like their entries to be stored as a new .txt document ( or even better added to a csv file but I appreciate this may be a bit tricky).

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed? Any help would be great.

Thanks

You could use MS Excel/Access to do this. Create your spreadsheet/database and an input form then any records you add will be stored (don't forget to save the file regularly!). You can then export the data into a CSV file.

Yeh I hadn't thought of that - I really would like it to come from a html based form though. Is there a way of exporting form info into an excel file on a local machine?

I can help.

First, get cgi-lib.
Then, you need to make the cgi file to process the form.

Put the cgi file in the same directory as the cgi-lib.pl file.

Then, put these lines in the beginning of the cgi file.

#!/usr/bin/perl
require "cgi-lib.pl";
&ReadParse(*input);

Now, for each form input, put a line with each input name.

Here, the input names are username and password.

$username = $input{'username'};
$password = $input{'password'};

Then, put lines like this to open the file

open(OUT, users.txt);
select(OUT);

The, write to the file

print "Username: $username";
print "Password: $password";
print "\n===========================\n\n";

Finally, add

close(OUT);

I hope this helped. You would probably want to add a redirect of some sort, or just have a link back to the main form with a thank you message.

Thanks sounds very concise - I will give it a go tomorrow and let you know if it works.

So, how goes this? Did it work?