[Nms-cgi-devel] [ nms-cgi-Patches-1904294 ] Patch for adding support for writing form submissions to CSV

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Patches item #1904294, was opened at 2008-02-28 16:40
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Submitted By: William McKee (kona)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Patch for adding support for writing form submissions to CSV

Initial Comment:
I needed to be able to write form submissions to a CSV file for backup and data manipulation. The following patch does the job.

NOTES:

1. It requires Text::CSV be availble
2. A new config parameter called 'csv_file' is expected with the path to write the file to
3. A header line is only output if the file exists and size is 0
4. If you change your form, you should reset your csv file. No warnings are in place to let you know that changes are happening.

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>Comment By: William McKee (kona)
Date: 2008-02-28 18:32

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In addition, if you want fields like 'email' to come through into the csv
file, you need to add include_config_NAME. Here's an example of a
%more_config settings for setting the csv_file and include:

%more_config = (
    'csv_file' => '/home/garlicgold/public_html/cgi/sample_form_db.csv',
    'include_config_email' => 1,
);


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