Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread Kris G Findlay
, April 12, 2002 2:18 PM Subject: RE: Preview data uh... Are you using the CGI module? This test CGI script can take 'hello what?' and when submitted will return the exact same thing. What kinda problem are you really having? #!perl use strict; use warnings; use CGI qw(:standard); print

RE: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread Nikola Janceski
Findlay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:16 AM To: beginners; cgi Subject: Re: Preview data ok exact problem !! Example data inputed via form : 'here is a quote this Quote.' # which is passes to variable $document if i use hidden fields in a html form

Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread Kris G Findlay
12, 2002 3:55 PM Subject: Re: Preview data From: drieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 07:15 , Kris G Findlay wrote: ok exact problem !! Example data inputed via form : 'here is a quote this Quote.' # which is passes to variable $document if i use

Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread drieux
On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 04:30 , Kris G Findlay wrote: i'm writing a script that takes data submited by a form and adds it to a mysql database but i would like to be able to preview the data as it is to be displayed before final submission to database. i have tried using hidden form

RE: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread Nikola Janceski
12, 2002 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Preview data On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 04:30 , Kris G Findlay wrote: i'm writing a script that takes data submited by a form and adds it to a mysql database but i would like to be able to preview the data

Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread drieux
On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 07:15 , Kris G Findlay wrote: ok exact problem !! Example data inputed via form : 'here is a quote this Quote.' # which is passes to variable $document if i use hidden fields in a html form to store these variables while the page displays a preview

Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: drieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 07:15 , Kris G Findlay wrote: ok exact problem !! Example data inputed via form : 'here is a quote this Quote.' # which is passes to variable $document if i use hidden fields in a html form to store these variables

Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread drieux
On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 07:55 , Jenda Krynicky wrote: No it will not. just figured that out [..] This is the safest method: use HTML::Entities; $hiddenField = encode_entities(param('hiddenField')); $html = qq{input type=hidden name=something

Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: drieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 07:55 , Jenda Krynicky wrote: No it will not. just figured that out [..] This is the safest method: use HTML::Entities; $hiddenField = encode_entities(param('hiddenField')); $html = qq{input

Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread drieux
On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 08:41 , Jenda Krynicky wrote: [..] Yes, if you can use that I fully agree you should, but if you have some html template you fill in you have to make sure you escape your data yourself :-) the horrors of 'maintaining' code that should have started with CGI.pm to

Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: drieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] It would seem that the current CGI.pm should not retranslation of quot; into amp;quot; - or am I being naive? If CGI.pm would be made by Microsoft then it would not. And if you needed to put into a hidden field something that already is HTML it'll screw things

RE: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread Nikola Janceski
had problems with throwing in my own html code in with the CGI stuff. -Original Message- From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Preview data Also, while I like Nikola's generalized solution - I have decided

Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread drieux
On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 09:51 , Jenda Krynicky wrote: [..] Keep in mind that the user might have entered those quot;, lt; B and others. So if you want them to survive you have to escape them. Even if that would mean the page will contain input type=hidden name=foo value=1

Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: drieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Given the original concern to 'retain' the This Quote in the hidden field, there is now the problem of decode_entities perchance more than once??? original input: This Quote saved as hidden: $quot;This Quote$quot; so the

One Print, One WebPage was Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread drieux
On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 10:05 , Nikola Janceski wrote: And why can't you do the same with the CGI module? $page_o_html = hidden(-name = 'crap', -value = $crap); would be the same thing. You lost me on that... Mea Kulpa... essential it's the case of s/print/$page_o_html .=/

Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread Kris G Findlay
, April 12, 2002 2:18 PM Subject: RE: Preview data uh... Are you using the CGI module? This test CGI script can take 'hello what?' and when submitted will return the exact same thing. What kinda problem are you really having? #!perl use strict; use warnings; use CGI qw(:standard); print

RE: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread Nikola Janceski
Findlay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:16 AM To: beginners; cgi Subject: Re: Preview data ok exact problem !! Example data inputed via form : 'here is a quote this Quote.' # which is passes to variable $document if i use hidden fields in a html form

Re: Preview data

2002-04-12 Thread Kris G Findlay
12, 2002 3:55 PM Subject: Re: Preview data From: drieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 07:15 , Kris G Findlay wrote: ok exact problem !! Example data inputed via form : 'here is a quote this Quote.' # which is passes to variable $document if i use