help with perl

craig · 19th February 2003, 12:02 PM

someone offered to help with perl sometime back before xmas and i can't find their post...

a friend developed a simple perlscript for me that parses a form, sends the content by email and adds the content to a flatfile(.txt) for later addition into a database.

it works a dream, is very clean and has the advantage of keeping email addresses off the html page.

when i started using ukhosting i had problems getting this to work, before i had the script in the cgi-bin and with uk it must be in the perl directory. (thanks simon)

my friend no longer talks to me (well really he now has a full-time job-thanks adam) and i'm not confident it is working properly or is as secure as it should be.

i'm a commercial website developer and aren't up to this, can some perlwiz out their lend me a hand?

ps i'm happy to share this script with anyone with UKH.

UH-Matt · 19th February 2003, 02:49 PM

Who is UKHosting?

Personally I dont have a clue about Perl and favour PHP everytime, but i will ask a few people if they can help you.

craig · 19th February 2003, 04:11 PM

UK hosting is this great hosting company i found at webhostingtalk.com

they also go by the name of unitedhosting.co.uk

UH-Matt · 19th February 2003, 04:13 PM

oh, so its us

evo4ever · 19th February 2003, 04:44 PM

I can create you a PHP Mailer if you want. Give me your specs and ill work on it righ away.

UH-Matt · 19th February 2003, 04:45 PM

pfft! Where is our IP manager first!

craig · 19th February 2003, 04:55 PM

thanks evo4ever, i appreciate the offer.

i've had a quick look at some basic PHP tutorials and the disadvantage of using PHP here is that the recipient's email address is embedded in the HTML page.

is there a way around this (to avoid spiderbots)?

UH-Matt · 19th February 2003, 05:04 PM

Store the email address in a MySQL table

craig · 19th February 2003, 06:18 PM

[quote author=evo4ever link=board=7;threadid=407;start=0#msg2502 date=1045673072]
I can create you a PHP Mailer if you want. Give me your specs and ill work on it righ away.
[/quote]

evo4ever,
i just emailed you and it bounced ??

Euge · 19th February 2003, 06:41 PM

[quote author=craig link=board=7;threadid=407;start=0#msg2506 date=1045673711]
i've had a quick look at some basic PHP tutorials and the disadvantage of using PHP here is that the recipient's email address is embedded in the HTML page.

is there a way around this (to avoid spiderbots)?
[/quote]
Just because its in the php code doesn't mean its in the html. php is server-side so anything inside <?php ?> is not sent to the client. For example, replace your email address in the below code, run it, then view the source. The email address is never received by the browser and will never be found by spiders.

Code:

&lt;?php
$sendAddr = 'your@emailaddress.com';
$subject = 'Mailed from PHP script';
$message = 'This is a test message.';
$fromAddr = 'nobody@yourdomain.com';
mail($sendAddr, $subject, $message, &quot;From: $fromAddr&quot;);
?&gt;
&lt;!-- Notice no code is sent above this line --&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Test Email&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
Email sent
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;

evo4ever · 19th February 2003, 10:39 PM

[quote author=craig link=board=7;threadid=407;start=0#msg2510 date=1045678736]
[quote author=evo4ever link=board=7;threadid=407;start=0#msg2502 date=1045673072]
I can create you a PHP Mailer if you want. Give me your specs and ill work on it righ away.
[/quote]

evo4ever,
i just emailed you and it bounced ??
[/quote]

My email addr is evo4ever@phpevo.com it isnt tyrannus_eminence@btopenworld.com anymore