Re: Passing a form parm and a url reference to a different script

I'm not sure if I truely understood you, but maybe you are searching for hidden form elements.
<input type="hidden" name="secret" value="notdisplayed">
But I must say that this is a very dangerous way of transporting informations because the user can read the HTML source and modify the variables quite easy. You have to insert a view methods to check the values or better you save the informations you've allready got.

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Re: Re: Passing a form parm and a url reference to a different script by mnlight (Scribe) on Dec 23, 2001 at 11:51 UTC
It makes sense that the second script would be able to get the user id from the remote_user() since it is handled by the server. However could you please explain what a less dangerous way to pass 2 variables to a different script would be. I am not understanding how the hidden form element works.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Passing a form parm and a url reference to a different script by TomK32 (Monk) on Dec 23, 2001 at 13:21 UTC
hidden form elements are simply not shown to the user although he can open the source and find them. You can use them like nomal `<input>-field` except that their `type=hidden`. The normal and less dangerous way is to save the data you've got (maybe into a database (mark the entry it temporary) or a temporary file) and reread the data in the second script. `-- package Lizard::King; sub can { do { 'anything'} };` [download] TomK32 - just a geek trying to change the world	[reply] [d/l] [select]