Fellow Monasterians,

I'm I have gotten HTML::FillInForm to populate a form using a somewhat busy bunch of code:

my $q = new CGI; 
$q -> param(-name => 'choices', -value => '2');
$q -> param(-name => 'address', -value => '123 Main Street');

my $template = HTML::Template->new( filename => "../form.tmpl");
my $html = $template->output;
my $form = new HTML::FillInForm;
my $page = $form->fill(scalarref => \$html,
                                     fobject => $q);

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print $page;

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The doc for HTML::FillInForm says that the fobject will accept a hash ref, but I this returns an "unblessed" error:

my $q = new CGI; 
my $info = [ { -name => 'address', -value => '123 Main' },
                    { -name => 'choices', -value => '2'} ];

my $template = HTML::Template->new( filename => "../form.tmpl");      
+                          
my $html = $template->output;
my $form = new HTML::FillInForm;
my $page = $form->fill(scalarref => \$html,
                                     fobject => $info);

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print $page;

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I would like to loop through data from by db table to populate this hash. Is there a way to do this cleanly? Or am I just not getting this? Thanks!

Update: Please see my findings, which are under the review of the HTML::FillInForm module itself.


—Brad
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot

In reply to Trying to pass a hash ref to a module by bradcathey

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