Re: [Templates] [PL] Coding for Y/N radio buttons

> An easier way of doing this is with the CGI module... pass a CGI

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Todd Freeman wrote:

> An easier way of doing this is with the CGI module... pass a CGI
> object (in this case 'q') to the template and you can do fun stuff
> like:

I wish you guys would quit this.  Now I have to rethink my design/code to
make it easier to maintain and pass along.  (There goes the job security!  
:-)

> [% q.radio_group(name => 'GETS_REPORT',
> 			values=>['T','F'],
> 			default=>gets_report,
> 			labels=>{'T'=>'Yes','F'=>'No'}
> 		); %]
> 
> If you want to get fancier you make stuff persistent:

This will take some doing.  Currently I'm pulling the fileds/values in 
from the form and placing them in another hash that is passed around 
script for adding to and modifying.

my $SignUp = new CGI
my %SUI;
...
my @PARAMS = $SignUp->param;
map {$SUI{$_} = $SignUp->param($_)} @PARAMS;

and then I slice and dice %SUI

This seemed to make more sense and was less typing then

$SignUp->param(gets_report) = 'T';  (Have I got this right?)

> [% SET TFlabels = {'T'=>'Yes','F'=>'No'}; %]
> [% SET TFvalues = ['T','F']; %]
> [% q.radio_group(name => 'GETS_REPORT',
> 			values=>TFvalues,
> 			default=>q.param('GETS_REPORT'),
> 			labels=>TFlabels}
> 		); %]
> 
> And you can then add more radio groups with the same params dead
> simply... Like say you have an array of questions in a hash with the
> keys as labels
> 
> 
> [% SET TFlabels = {'T'=>'Yes','F'=>'No'}; %]
> [% SET TFvalues = ['T','F']; %]
> [% FOREACH question = questions.keys %]
> 	[% q.radio_group(name => question,
> 			values=>TFvalues,
> 			default=>q.param(questions.$question),
> 			labels=>TFlabels}
> 		); %]
> [% END %]
> 
> VOILA!
> 
> BTW... I have noticed that most of the people asking questions and
> showing DBI examples and such seem to hardcode their HTML... am I
> doing something evil by using the CGI module for all this?

I'd love to but my coding jumps from from type of project to another.  I 
never get a chance to come close to mastering CGI.pm.  Also I'm qiute 
often given designs done in Frontpage or Dreamweaver and I am unwilling to 
translate that to good clean xhtml since about 3 seconds after I get it 
done a totally new design will come out.
   I have done a few scripts without TT using CGI before I discovered TT.  
Now the design is looked into the code so I have to modify the look 
(there's job security coming back.)

But your example using CGI with TT will make me re-look at several project 
for recoding.  The think I really link is I can display the template file 
and tweak the layout and not worry too much about the back-end coding.

Praise be to the lords of perl!

Rod
        -- 
            "Open Source Software - You usually get more than you pay for..."
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