Re: [htmltmpl] Problems with HTML::TEMPLATE

[Rama S. <ra...@sa...>]

Hello all,

Thanks for the feed back.

I had to specifically mention CHECKED="CHECKED" in the if statement to make
it work.
Simply by saying CHECKED alone (though a valid html attribute) does not seem
to work.
Basically to be more clear I tried doing this first
<input type="radio" name="beepStatus" value="yes" <tmpl_if
yesBeeps>cheecked</tmpl_if>  it did not work.

but by doing this it worked

<input type="radio" name="beepStatus" value="yes" <tmpl_if
yesBeeps>cheecked="checked"</tmpl_if>  worked out well.

I am guessing the html template engine must be looking for some name-value
pairs and just by seeing a single value with out a matching name would have
rejected interpreting it.

Thanks to all and special thanks to simonartist.

rama


----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Simoni" <ju...@sk...>
To: "Rama Srinivas" <ra...@sa...>
Cc: <htm...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [htmltmpl] 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