Re: [Templates] Objects as hidden variables?

> Hi all,

The limitation here is not with template toolkit, but the HTML get and post 
methods.  Consider the following:

<form>
 <input type='text' name='session' value='3>
 <input type='hidden' name='uid' value='6'>
</form>

When that form is submitted, all the browser does is concatenate it into one 
big URL string like this:

index.cgi?session=3&uid=6

The more form elements you add, the more stuff gets concatenated to the end of 
the URL string.

Why your attempt won't work is that an object is not a string...  the variable 
[% session %] includes other stuff.  What you'll need to do is create a 
hidden field for EVERY member of the session object and then reassemble the 
object in the subsequent script:

my $session = new Session;
$session->{uid} = $q>param('uid');

hope that helps,
Sean

On Friday 17 December 2004 09:08 am, Jonathan Mangin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to pass objects back to a perl program as hidden variables?
> I tried...
>
> Template:
>      <input type=hidden name=session value=[% session %]>
>
> Subroutine:
>      my $session = $q->param('session');
>      my $uid = $session->param('uid');
>
> which failed miserably. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
>
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