I have a page that's dynamically generated by cgi and I pass variables to the next page with a link like this
generate_next_page.cgi?val
where $value1 and $value2 are variables within my cgi page.
The problem is that on one page I also have a form that gathers new variables and I want to pass my original variables ($value1 and $value 2) as well as the new variables that are picked up from the form.
I've tried this a few different ways and I either get my old variables in the url, or the new ones, but never both at the same time. Any ideas?
Thanks
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Hi rezachar,
I think dj's solution basically solves most of your problem. You just need to change the "post" method in the form to "get" if you want to have the variables displayed on the URL OR if you only handle GET variables.
As for JS, just use:
print "<a href=\"javascript:document
in your program to submit the form above.
Cheers!
The solutions mentioned above will work. I assume what you are trying to do, however, is to pass your old variables in as parameters on the action URL to save space. I could never get that to work. I have done this by passing them as extra parameters rather than variables and then parsing them.
Form syntax:
<form action=foo.pl/parm1=value1
I then just have a generic bit of Perl to stuff them back into CGI parameters
my $path_info = $query->path_info;
$path_info .= '/';
$path_info =~ s/\+/ /;
$path_info =~ s/[^\/A-Za-z\-_ 0-9=]//g;
while ($path_info =~ /\/([A-Za-z\-_0-9]*)=(.*?)
$query->param($1, $2);
$path_info =~ s/\/$1=$2//;
}
You may have to tweak this depending on the values you expect (I don't really unescape things properly in this example).
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by: djplaistowPosted on 2003-11-04 at 08:14:39ID: 9679521
The variables can not have the same names. The variable name must uniquely identify the variable.
I am not one hundred persent sure that I understand your question, so part of this is a guess. Instead of using a link to maintain the old variable's value, use hidden variables within the form itself. The perl might look like this:
print <<END_OF_TEXT;
<form name=yourForm method=post action="generate_next_page
<input type=hidden name=val1 value="$value1">
<input type=hidden name=val2 value="$value2">
New value 1:<input type=text name=newValue1 size=18>
New value 2:<input type=text name=newValue2 size=18>
<input type=submit name=pageSubmit>
</form>
END_OF_TEXT
Now when the user selects the submit button, the old values come in as val1 and val2. The new values come to the script as newValue1 and newValue2. Of course if your page looks better with a link for the submit than a button, just change the href's url to explicitly execute the JavaScript submit() method on the form. Incidently, the submit() method is the reason you should never name a submit button "submit" as is all too common.