Re: [htmltmpl] Select/option How to set "selected"?

[Mathew R. <mat...@re...>]

The difference would be not be measurable unless you did a 1,000,000 =
instantations, then timed the results, since both Perl and H::T are =
reasonably quick a text processing.

Mathew


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From: "Mark Fuller" <mar...@ea...>
To: <ja...@jo...>
Cc: <htm...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [htmltmpl] Select/option How to set "selected"?


> Jason, thanks. The way you do the push helped me. I was putting the =
values
> into a temporary hash and then assigning the hash as a reference. I =
wanted
> to do it more directly like you did, but didn't know the semantics.
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> Regarding this:
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> >    $selected =3D 1 if i_want_this_option_selected( $option );
> and
> > <TMPL_LOOP NAME=3DOCCUPATION_LOOP>
> > <option value=3D"<TMPL_VAR NAME=3DVAL>" <TMPL_IF
> > NAME=3D"SELECTED">SELECTED</TMPL_IF>><TMPL_VAR NAME=3DTEXT></option>
> > </TMPL_LOOP>
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> Do you think this is more efficient, or is it more efficient to do as =
Puneet
> suggested:
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> >    $selected =3D ' selected' if i_want_this_option_selected( $option =
);
> and
> > <TMPL_LOOP NAME=3DOCCUPATION_LOOP>
> > <option value=3D"<TMPL_VAR NAME=3DVAL>"<TMPL_VAR =
NAME=3DSELECTED>><TMPL_VAR
> NAME=3DTEXT></option>
> > </TMPL_LOOP>
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> It seems to me the latter would be more efficient? If I am already =
testing
> my criteria for selected, then I don't have to do an "if" again in the =
HTML.
> In other words, is it more efficient to resolve the variable contents, =
or to
> test variable?
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> Mark
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> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "Jason Purdy" <ja...@jo...>
> To: "Mark Fuller" <mar...@ea...>
> Cc: <htm...@li...>
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 2:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [htmltmpl] Select/option How to set "selected"?
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> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > How are you determining which option to pre-select?  It might be =
better
> > to use HTML::FillInForm.
> >
> > Other than that, here's what you would do if you want to re-invent =
the
> > wheel:
> >
> > ### In your programming code ###
> > my $template =3D HTML::Template->new( 'filename' =3D> 'file.TMPL' );
> > my $occloop_ar =3D []; # occupation loop array ref.
> > while ( my ( $option, $value ) =3D $sth->fetchrow_array ) {
> >    my $selected =3D 0;
> >    $selected =3D 1 if i_want_this_option_selected( $option );
> >    push @$array_ref, {
> >        'VAL' =3D> $option,
> >        'TEXT' =3D> $value,
> >        'SELECTED' =3D> $selected,
> >      };
> > }
> > $template->param( 'OCCUPATION_LOOP' =3D> $occloop_ar );
> >
> > ### Then in your template code ###
> > Occupation: <select name=3D"occupation">
> > <TMPL_LOOP NAME=3DOCCUPATION_LOOP>
> > <option value=3D"<TMPL_VAR NAME=3DVAL>" <TMPL_IF
> > NAME=3D"SELECTED">SELECTED</TMPL_IF>><TMPL_VAR NAME=3DTEXT></option>
> > </TMPL_LOOP>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
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