[Dancer-users] Keeping values on a form

ambs ambs+dancer at perl-hackers.net
Thu Dec 16 22:06:31 CET 2010


Hi

This is not really a Dancer problem, but something that I am missing 
when changing from CGI to Dancer + TemplateToolkit.

Basically:
  - I have a form with an array of checkboxes
  - that form gets submitted
  - some results are shown, together with the form for resubmission

The question is, how do I keep the checkboxes checked (or not) 
accordingly with what the user picked before submitting it?

For reference, CGI called this behavior as stiky: By default the CGI 
module implements a state-preserving behavior called "sticky" fields. 
The way this works is that if you are regenerating a form, the methods 
that generate the form field values will interrogate param() to see if 
similarly-named parameters are present in the query string. If they find 
a like-named parameter, they will use it to set their default values.

Thank you
ambs


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