Re: populating dropdown box from db

On 05/09/2012 11:49 AM, Theunis De Klerk wrote:

>>
> Hi,
>
> So does this work?
> [% FOREACH factory IN factory %] (Note plural in example below)

I don't know if that works or not.  I realized that if it did work I'd 
quickly get lost in the logic loop when I came back to it months from 
now.  Not quite sure what I was thinking when I wrote that.  Granted, it 
was just before lunch and I couldn't focus through noise of my stomach 
growling.

>
> I am also new to TT. But I would have done it like this :
>
> #PERL
> my $vars = { 'factories' => \@rows};
>
> #HTML
> <select name="factory">
> [% FOREACH factory IN factories %]
> <option value="">[% factory %]</option>
> [% END %]
> </select>
>
> I am not sure why you would want to wrap the FOREACH around the select.


Wrapping the select in the OP was a mistake on my part.  I actually 
fixed that just after sending the post.


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