Sticky forms for Apache::ASP

[Paul Lindner]

Hi,

We've worked out a solution to get sticky form fields inside Apache::ASP

We use HTML::FillinForm and a custom tag to get the desired behaviour.
Put this is in global.asa:


 sub fillin {
   my $args = shift;
   my $html = shift;
   my $fif = new HTML::FillInForm;
   my $output = $fif->fill(
                           scalarref => \$html,
                           fdat      => $Apps::Param,
                           );
   $Response->Write($output);
 }

Note $Apps::Param is set to either the querystring or form data.
Replace with $Request->QueryString or $Request->Form if you wish.

Then put something like this in your apache configuration:

  XMLSubsMatch fillin

Finally, surround your forms like this:

  <fillin>
    <form>
      <input name="myfield">
    </form>
  </fillin>


And voila, instant filled in forms..

Note that a small variation to this technique allows for ASP3.0 style
evaluation of forms.

Instead use a 'form' function

 sub form {
  ...
 }

Then check the args to see if the param 'runat' is set to 'server'.

If so, do the funky stuff, if not, just spit it out...




-- 
Paul Lindner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Red Hat Inc.