Re: [Templates] Objects as hidden variables?

> The limitation here is not with template toolkit, but the HTML get and

Sean,

Thanks...another knowledge gap filled in. TT has enough magical
stuff, I thought I'd check.

-J

> 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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