Re: [htmltmpl] Select/option lists (how to generate)

[Philip T. <phi...@gm...>]

Sometime on Jan 10, Mark A. Fuller assembled some asciibets to say:

>    # %db_vals is automatically populated because the prepared statement
>    # has "bind_col" each column to a $db_vals{key}.
>
>      if ($db_vals{code} eq $selected_value) {
>        $sel = ' selected="selected"';
>      }

I do it by pushing the selected evaluation right to the SQL:

SELECT foo, bar, baz, IF(bar='myval', 'selected', '') AS selected FROM 
...

and then just throw it into an arrayref.

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