#!/usr/local/bin/perl use CGI qw/:all/; $| = 1; my $q = new CGI; my $action = $q->param('action'); # Read in all the variables set by the form CGI::ReadParse(*input); # Print out a content-type for HTTP/1.0 compatibility print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; $month = $input{'month'}; $date = $input{'date'}; $year = $input{'year'}; #$action = param('action'); #print $action; $numberoflines = &CountCurrentRecords('events.txt'); if($action eq "add_data"){ print "Your post was sucessful
"; #check_event(); add_data(); } else{ #print "We are not in the Add sub-routine
"; #this is just an example fictitious default subroutine } if($action eq "preview"){ #print "
Is this information correct?
"; preview(); } else{ #print "We are not in the Preview sub-routine
"; #this is just an example fictitious default subroutine } ############### BEGIN COUNTCURRENTRECORDS SUBROUTINE ######################## sub CountCurrentRecords { $number = 1; my($database) = ($_[0]); open(DATABASE, "$database"); while ($line=) { $number++; } $number = 0 if $number < 0; close(DATABASE); return $number; } ############################################################################# ## ## Preview Data Section ## ############################################################################ ############### sub preview ######## sub preview{ print "
$month $date, $year $input{'title'}
$input{'message'}



$numberoflines \n"; } ############################################################################# ## ## Add Data Section ## ############################################################################ ############### sub add_data ######## sub add_data{ # Print out a content-type for HTTP/1.0 compatibility $addfile = "events.txt"; print "$month"; print $month; #print "We are in the add_data sub-routine
\n"; # Open the file for appending open (OUT, ">>$addfile") or die "Can't open $addfile\n"; $number = $numberoflines; $message = $input{'message'}; $line = join '::', $number,$month,$date,$year,$title,$message; print OUT "$line\n"; close OUT; }