Allowing visitors to upload files

[sewhothth]

Ok, I created a browse button and upload area in a quote form on my site. Where do I get the custom cgi script so my site can process the incoming files?

[Jef S.]

Uhhhh, what? (sorry, I kid)

Which cgi script do you mean? Assuming it's just a perl script, just open it up in a text editor(NOT NOTEPAD OR WORD) and look for the part that mentions <input type=submit name=submit> and change it to say <input type="image" src="images/submit.jpg" value="Submit" alt="Submit">

The src= section needs to point to the location of the files, obviously.

[sewhothth]

Uhhhh, what? (sorry, I kid)

Which cgi script do you mean? Assuming it's just a perl script, just open it up in a text editor(NOT NOTEPAD OR WORD) and look for the part that mentions <input type=submit name=submit> and change it to say <input type="image" src="images/submit.jpg" value="Submit" alt="Submit">

The src= section needs to point to the location of the files, obviously.

in the sample I saw, perl was listed in the script.

[sewhothth]

Uhhhh, what? (sorry, I kid)

Which cgi script do you mean? Assuming it's just a perl script, just open it up in a text editor(NOT NOTEPAD OR WORD) and look for the part that mentions <input type=submit name=submit> and change it to say <input type="image" src="images/submit.jpg" value="Submit" alt="Submit">

The src= section needs to point to the location of the files, obviously.

When you say, open it up in a text editor, what do I open up? Do I pull a script from cpanel? Also, what other text editor would I use.

[Jef S.]

The easiest thing would be to use the text editor or code editor in the file manager in cPanel.

[sewhothth]

The easiest thing would be to use the text editor or code editor in the file manager in cPanel.

Ok, so what script do I put in their so I can look for what you told me to look for.

[sewhothth]

I'll search the net for some more info on this.

[Jef S.]

Ok, so what script do I put in their so I can look for what you told me to look for.

look in the page that has the form on it, you'll see the script in the <form action=...> line, the name of the script should be there. Post the URL or PM me the URL if you want me to take a look.

[sewhothth]

look in the page that has the form on it, you'll see the script in the <form action=...> line, the name of the script should be there. Post the URL or PM me the URL if you want me to take a look.

www.sewhotthreads.com

I created the quote form in notepad. Here is what I just added to the form to get the Browse button and text box. According to what I read, I need to add the perl script after the sewhotthreads.com/ where the cgibin portion is. The rest of the form makes it to my email fine.


<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="http://www.sewhotthreads.com/cgibin/">
<h2>What file would you like to send?</h2>
<p><input type="file" name="title" size="30"/>