Mail List script

Hi guys,

I have a script for a mail list, which adds the name and email address to a text file. I now deen to be able to add the street address, town, county and postcode. I tried modifying the script myself but can't get it to work. Could someone have a go or show me where I'm going wrong?

Here's the part of the script that adds the details to the text file:
sub add {

$dup = 0;

if (-e "$list")
{
open (FILE,"$list") || die "Can't open $list!\n";
@lines=<FILE>;
close(FILE);

foreach $line (@lines) {
&splitlist;
if ($uemail eq $email) {$dup = '1';}
}
}
if ($dup eq '0')
{
while (-f $listlock){select(undef,undef,undef,0.1);}
open(LOCKFILE, ">$listlock");

open (FILE,">>$list");
print FILE "$email=$name=$date\n";
close(FILE);

close(LOCKFILE);
unlink($listlock);
}

&printresult;
}


I tried doing this:

open (FILE,">>$list");
print FILE "$email=$name=$address=$town=$county=$postcode=$date\n";
close(FILE);

but it didn't work.

Quote:

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Originally posted by GingerNut
Hi guys,

I have a script for a mail list, which adds the name and email address to a text file. I now deen to be able to add the street address, town, county and postcode. I tried modifying the script myself but can't get it to work. Could someone have a go or show me where I'm going wrong?

Here's the part of the script that adds the details to the text file:
sub add {

$dup = 0;

if (-e "$list")
{
open (FILE,"$list") || die "Can't open $list!\n";
@lines=<FILE>;
close(FILE);

foreach $line (@lines) {
&splitlist;
if ($uemail eq $email) {$dup = '1';}
}
}
if ($dup eq '0')
{
while (-f $listlock){select(undef,undef,undef,0.1);}
open(LOCKFILE, ">$listlock");

open (FILE,">>$list");
print FILE "$email=$name=$date\n";
close(FILE);

close(LOCKFILE);
unlink($listlock);
}

&printresult;
}


I tried doing this:

open (FILE,">>$list");
print FILE "$email=$name=$address=$town=$county=$postcode=$date\n";
close(FILE);

but it didn't work.

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Why don't you do this in PHP and use a MySQL database? It'd be so much easier.

Wouldn't know how.

What exactly is the problem or error message? And can't you use the flock() function for file locking?

There is no error message. I just can't get it to write the postal address to the text file.

So what's it writing to the text file, empty strings between the '=' where the address parts should be?

It writes the email address, the name and the date. Like this:

[email protected]=Test=Oct 08, 02 (15:59:52 BST)

Quote:

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Originally posted by GingerNut
Wouldn't know how.

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So learn?

Rather than posting here for everyone to fix your scripts for you. I've done a couple of them for you in the PHP forum. :rolleyes: