PHP to Perl - simple script

can any one turn this into perl?
i have tryed but failed, would be very greatful

PHP:

fwrite<?php

$comment=$_REQUEST["comment"];
$filename = 'test.txt';
$comment = "message: $comment";

!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a');
fwrite($handle, $comment."\r\n\r\n" );
fclose($handle);
    


    
header( 'Location: yes.html' )

?>



 

good christ.. why are people still using perl for web stuff. it was never meant for it..

 

http://www.123-reg.co.uk/web-hosting/

dosnt support PHP

unless you need to set it up?

http://harlemnightsband.co.uk/contact.html

is the site i created, when you send it just comes up with the php and dosnt sent the message

unless im doing something wrong?

it works fine on my computer with WAMP installed

 

I looked it up, and found these sites comparing PHP to Perl. They seem to like Perl.
http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/perl/perl-vs-php.html
http://www.tnx.nl/php.html
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/phpvscgi.shtml prefers PHP, if your server supports it. (I know yours doesn't.)
I've never programmed in Perl before, but I've studied a few examples. I'll need to look up a couple things, but will try to post a translation for you to try.

 

Here it is to try:

Code:

#! /usr/bin/perl

my $comment=$cgi->param('comment');
open(my $handle, ">>", "test.txt") or die 'Error. Please press your browser's Back button and try again.';
print $handle "message: $comment\r\n\r\n";
close $handle;
print "Your message: $comment\n<br>was received."

If it doesn't work, let me know, and I'll try to fix them. I added confirmation messages. I think I also suppressed error messages, but if you want to enable them, add these lines before the main code, but after the #! first line:

Code:

use strict;
use warnings;

You also might want to add the target=_blank attribute to the form html tag to open this in a new window. (Then you can delete that part about pressing the back button, and just keep the try again part.) Alternatively, you could edit them to write better html.
I assume you know how to upload this and make it executable. Instructions will probably be on the host's site.