so i've read through the perldoc for HTML::Template and through HTML::Template Tutorial, and associate does really look like it could save my day here ...

i have a form for which i'd have to pull out a bunch of popup menu name/value pairs (states and abbrevs, etc), but i really don't want to go through and create *another* version of this, since this client's stuff doesn't have a database.

here's the code from the script: 

my $qry = CGI->new();
my $vars = $qry->Vars();

my $tmpl = HTML::Template->new( 
                     filename => $tmpls{$tmplName},
                     die_on_bad_params => 0,
                     associate => $qry
                     );
$tmpl->param( $vars );
my $msg = $tmpl->output();
print $qry->header, $msg;

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nice and simple, no? problem is, the selected state value isn't being preserved. all the other values are ... ( because i've hand-added  <TMPL_VAR NAME='foo'> but not the 2 popup menus (which are hand-coded in the HTML).

am i misunderstanding the use of associate here? the value for USERSTATE ( the param name in this case ) is passed as part of the info in the $vars hashref ... but the same value isn't *technically* under the control of HTML::Template ( no TMPL_LOOP creating it, basically ).

In reply to HTML::Template, associate 'method', and popup menus by geektron

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