Alex's Append CGI script

Append is designed to be a generic form handling cgi script. I currently use it on two pages, one allows you to register as a user of a perl script I wrote called WWWis. The other allows users to tell me about bungy sites they know about as part of my Bungee Jumping Resouce

IN SHORT: Append

• stores form output into a file
• can also email it to someone.
• Can also do simple listproc mailing list commands

Append is a perl script which appends all the form entries to a file for later processing. It also has the ability to mail people with the input to the form as well. The format of the file is almost HTML and most browsers should be able to read the log file as HTML. Also form entries which look like an email address are converetd into <A HREF="mailto:me@there"> links and all entries which look like a URL are converted into html links. A certain amount of text processing takes place to turn < into &lt; and add newlines if a blank line is in an input field.

Check out the source for append or mail meif you have any questions

Append attempts to be quite secure. It wont append to a file that doesn't exist. It also wont append to files with funny filenames. It also wont let the log file become too big so is o.k. for people with a small quota!

Features

• ignore certain form entries in the log file
• append into the middle of a file, either before or after an inserttion point.
• send mail to whoever you want and make it look like it came from whoever you want (last bit only from authorised sites)

If you would like to use it (or do) then please mail me so I can tell you of new versions