Re: Passing a hash from a form field?

[email protected] (Bill Stephenson)
Newsgroups perl.beginners.cgi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Take a look at the example scripts and docs...

http://search.cpan.org/src/LDS/CGI.pm-3.29/examples/index.html

http://search.cpan.org/src/LDS/CGI.pm-3.29/cgi_docs.html

I'm pretty sure you'll find the syntax you need in those documents.

Kindest Regards,

--
Bill Stephenson


On Apr 29, 2007, at 2:02 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> I have several instances where I would like to pass a hash (or a hash 
> reference) in a hidden form field to a subroutine within the same 
> script upon submitting the form.
>
> So far all my attempts have failed. I'm not even sure if this is 
> possible. I know about passing named parameters and references but 
> that only seems to work if the subroutine is called directly, not due 
> to a form submission. Does anyone know if this is even possible, and 
> if so, some direction I can take?
>
> #! /usr/bin/perl
> BEGIN
> {
> 	open (STDERR,">>$0-err.txt");
> 	print STDERR "\n",scalar localtime,"\n";
> }
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use CGI ':standard';
>
> my %Categories =(
> 	1 => "Exterior",
> 	2 => "Interior",
> 	3 => "Audio",
> 	4 => "Vehicles",
> 	5 => "Packages"
> 	);
> my $form_url= url();
>
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
>
> my $MODE=param('Mode');
> {
> 	no strict;
> 	$MODE="PageOne" unless $MODE; # default sub to execute
> 	&$MODE; # else execute this
> }
> ##############################################
> sub PageOne
> {
> print "<html><body>";
>
> foreach my $k ( sort keys %Categories)
> {
> 	print "[$k] => $Categories{$k}<br>";
> }
>
> print <<EndHTML;
> <form method="post" action="$form_url">
> <input type="hidden" name="Categories" value="%Categories">
> <input type="hidden" name="Mode" value="ReadCat">
> <input type="submit">
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
> EndHTML
> }
> ##################################################
> sub ReadCat
> {
> 	my %Cats = param('Categories');
> 	print "<html><body>";
> 	foreach my $k (keys %Cats)
> 	{
> 		print "[$k] => $Cats{$k}<br>\n";
> 	}
> 	print "</body></html>\n";
> }
>
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