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create a simple yes/no question online

I want to have a simple yes/no question on my webpage that is on unix server. Hence i have to use perl only. I just need to store the number of yes and no's. No other information like userid etc are there. Is it possible to store information in a simple txt file? Also are there any permissions that I have to set for the folder where the page and script is hosted?

How do i do this in perl?

Thanks

Tsvetomir

Yes and it's very easy ! :)
teh clasic way to do this is :

1. Make a html file whith the questions.
2. user submits the form with the choosen answer
3. Perl-CGI script recievies the data, opens the file and updates values;
4. print a result page back to the user or redirect him to an existent page

Yah have to set the rights : execute (chmode 755) for the script and read/write for the data file (chmode 666)

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Tsvetomir

Sorry..., better change theese two:

1.)After line 29 - ($yes, $no)=(<FH>, 0, 0);
add:

chomp($yes,$no);

(removes trailing ";" from the values if it's assigned)

2.)To prevent incrmenting "no" if no answer was selected change :

if ($answer==1) {
++$yes;
}else {
++$no;
}

# with:
if ($answer==1) {
++$yes;
}elsif ($answer==0){
++$no;
}

:))

Sankar030999

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The solution worked perfectly...I just had to change in a few places.

Thanks
Sankar