Hello,

I’ve been experimenting with CGI::Prototype::Hidden and I’m having a few troubles. And frankly, this might be more of a CGI.pm problem but I’m not sure. I’ve been reading the docs and the code and I know I need to set a hidden _state param. In the docs the example is: 

    [% self.CGI.hidden(self.config_state_param) %]

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This generates something like this: 

    <input type=”hidden” name=”_state” value=”Search”>

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Btw, I overrode the default page to “Search”.

My problem is that I want the value to be “Display” so when I hit the submit button the app will move to the next page. So I tried this: 

    [% self.CGI.hidden(self.config_state_param,”Display”) %]

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This gives a value of “Search” just like the first. If I hard code the hidden field it works as expected. What am I missing here?

My second problem is with self.CGI.end_form. When I tried: 

    [% self.CGI.end_form %]

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I get an ARRAY reference and not the text. I looked at the code in CGI.pm and it looks like that the end_form function returns an array or a scalar depending on context. How do I force scalar context in the Template Toolkit?

Thanks to anyone who can help.

rlb3

In reply to Trying to understand how CGI::Prototype::Hidden, Template Toolkit and CGI.pm work together. by rlb3

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