so when I hit the submit button the app will move to the next page
The basic strategy there is that your submit button returns you to the same page, and in your "respond_per_page" method, you recognize the submit button and return the new page.

The whole point of "state" is that the dispatcher can figure out what code should be used to respond to a given form. So it isn't a form in a user's browser that changes state, it's the respond controller that changes state.

And yeah, that's a messy interaction between end_form and Template Toolkit. You have to add .join("") to the result of end_form. Feh. This will be clearer in the updated docs.

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

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