[riscosweb] Re: Creating a blog in perl
- From: Mik Towse <mik.towse@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: riscosweb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:30:25 +0100
In article <4ADB2420.10601@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Mark Syder wrote:
> Not strictly RISC OS related, but it's been quiet here lately and I
> think we should allow questions to be a little more general just to keep
> the group alive.
I agree!
> I've been trying to create a blog-creation program in perl but can't
> open a file for writing. The script is in the cgi-bin directory and the
> blog in the blog directory. The first thing the script does is copy the
> old blog to blogyyyymmdd, which works. I have then tried to open a new
> file with:
>
> open(BLOGFILE, ">../blog/newblog.txt") || Error('open', 'file');
I assume you have a line something like...
local *BLOGFILE;
> but it didn't work, so I tried with:
>
> my $newfile="../blog/newblog.txt";
> open(BLOGFILE, ">$newfile") || Error('open', 'file');
>
> which also didn't work.
But what actually happens? Or doesn't!
Could it be that after the copy, the pointer is still pointing to the old
file & won't allow you to access it?
After the copy, do you need the original to be empty? If so, have you tried
deleting it before you open it as a new file?
> I considered permissions (but thought inadequate permissions would have
> prevented the copy from working) and changed the blog directory to
> universal write permissions (just as an experiment - I changed it back
> afterwards). Still no joy.
>
> Anyone any ideas?
There are a few such progs 'out there'. If they are written in PERL you may
be able to look at their code.
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