Re: $reg->param, $req->body - is there a way to set form data?

On Oct 27, 2006, at 8:25 PM, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:

> You can not, they are readonly versions of APR::Table (apr_table_t)
>
> You could always copy the structure to a hash somewhere.  Also,  
> check the archvies of this
> list, I know someone (probably joes) posted an answer to this  
> question before.

Just to add-

I think that approach can lead to some big problems.

I'd strongly suggest having a Form class, or some 'untaint' class,  
loop through the necessary fields -- pulling them from APR::Table,  
and validating/untainting them -- then just deal with those values.

Personally, I have a class that does this:
	Loop through values & validate
	valid data gets cleaned ( lead/trailing whitespace stripped, int()  
numerics ), and stored in an cleaned hash
	errors get marked in a hash that has an error code keyed to the field
	
	if scalar keys %errors :
		reprint form using the valid array as defaults
	else:
		do biz logic on the valid data




// Jonathan Vanasco

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