Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl scr ipt

2005-05-27 Thread Charlie
Another way to look at it is in terms of metadata. A SQL database table is a common and convenient way to manage that metadata in the form of a table definition - including data type and NULL/NOT NULL for each data item (aka column). But there are other ways to skin that cat (poor cat). Your

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl scr ipt

2005-05-27 Thread Uri Guttman
JR == Jim Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JR I'm missing something here. Why can't you just test to see if the JR variable is defined or not on your script? because he doesn't know in the code what the list of fields is. he needs to either parse the html survey page or have some other file

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl scr ipt

2005-05-27 Thread Sean Quinlan
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:43 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: JR == Jim Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JR I'm missing something here. Why can't you just test to see if the JR variable is defined or not on your script? because he doesn't know in the code what the list of fields is. he needs

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl scr ipt

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Uri Guttman wrote: JR == Jim Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JR I'm missing something here. Why can't you just test to see JR if the variable is defined or not on your script? because he doesn't know in the code what the list of fields is. This probably -- read,

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl scr ipt

2005-05-27 Thread Sean Quinlan
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 11:16 -0400, Chris Devers wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2005, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: Picture a web form that is some sort of a survey. When that survey is submit the perl script writes out the answers onto a file. That file is tab delimited. Stop right there, doctor, I