Re: Problems with HTML::TEMPLATE

I usually do something like this:

	<input type="radio" name="beepStatus" value="yes"  <tmpl_if  
yesBeeps>checked="checked"</tmpl_if> />

Where, "yesBeeps" holds 1 or undefined. I guess your perl code would  
look something like:


	my $yesBeeps  = 0;
	   $yesBeeps  = 1
		if beepStatus eq "yes";

	$tmpl_obj->param(yesBeeps => $yesBeeps);


You may also want to look at HTML::FillinForm, which is a real time  
saver. If you have a large form with many form elements, HTML::Template  
gets a bit unwieldy:
	
	http://search.cpan.org/~tjmather/HTML-FillInForm-1.05/lib/HTML/ 
FillInForm.pm

That way, you can pass HTML::FillnForm the value of, "beepStatus", and  
if there's a radiobutton that's associated with that value, it'll get  
checked. Like *magic*.

I preprocess an HTML page with HTML::Template, and then give it to  
HTML::FillinForm to fill in the holes. Works really well. Saves me  
time. Makes me look like a supehero.

Cheers,

justinSimoni.Artist
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On Mar 16, 2005, at 9:29 AM, Rama Srinivas wrote:

> Hi
>  
> I am reading information from a DB and prepopulating my form fields. 
> I am using HTML:TEMPLATES module to process my html tmpl files
>  
> Some of the entries in my table are radio buttons. I am prepopulating  
> them but for some reason they donot seem to be prepopulated. I tried  
> to do a view page source to see if the html is properly generated. It  
> seems to do so.
> All the other form fields are working fine. except radio buttons.
>  
> IS there any known issue with radio buttons prepopulation when using  
> html tempalates.
>  
> Here is the snippet of the code in my tmpl file.
>  
> <td>Beeps: yes:
> <input type="radio" name="beepStatus" value="yes"  <TMPL_VAR  
> NAME="yesBeeps"> >
> </td>
>  
> The yesBeeps param displays checked or is empty string depending if  
> that radio button has to be prepopulated or not. But suprising even if  
> it is marked as checked it does not show that in my html page.
> Any help or hints would help. Or i need to switch to the old style of  
> printing html doc through my perl program
> thanks
> rama



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