About a week or so I posted about getting sticky form elements,
and was pointed to the CGI plugin. Since then I've been setting
up a bunch of templates and learning my way around TT programming,
and it's been going well.
However, today I actually tried to use form stickiness, and I
find that I can't retrieve parameters at all. I'm sort of mystified
by this, esp. since the part that isn't working is effectively
identical to what I had before, except using TT instead of CGI.pm.
With the understanding that I'll probably realize my mistake as
soon as Mutt sends this message, can someone please give me a
hint?
In my calling program, I retrieve values from a database into
a $data_ref hash, and insert them into the parameter space with:
foreach my $key (keys(%$data_ref)) {
CGI::param(-name => $key, -value => $data_ref->{$key});
}
Later I call $tt->process..., and my page, including forms,
appear, but empty aside from the defaults, with no sticky
values held therein. Indeed, when I try for debugging purposes
to print a parameter value anywhere, i.e.
[% USE CGI %]
...
<body>
[% CGI.param("title") %]
it returns nothing, suggesting that the parameter isn't being
picked up at all, not just that it's a stickiness problem.
(Also for testing, if I try adding "print STDERR CGI::param("title");"
immediately before the $tt->process call, the value of "title"
does appear in STDERR.)
In passing, I also note that if I try to use the params() method,
as the Template::Plugin::CGI docs describe, by doing something
like [% CGI.params.title %], I die with an "undef error -
Undefined subroutine CGI::params" error.
Thanks for any insight.
Jesse Sheidlower
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