I recently got bogged down with using HTML::Template and persisting form fields when an error occurred in form processing. What I ended up doing was just using CGI.pm for creating the form fields. Each field can be set a default value by using the -default named parameter. So in this case, I just set the -default to $sess->{'whatever'}, and of course, if key 'whatever' doesn't exist, it just gets undef, no harm, no foul.

There are other options for prefilling your forms as well. Check out HTML::FillInForm.

The other thing you can do to simplify your scripts is use something like CGI::Application to organize your data. You can use the prerun/postrun hooks to create and persist your sessions automatically, so when you get down to actually programming logic, you don't have to think about those housekeeping things anymore.

In reply to Re: CGI::Session Simple Example by saberworks
in thread CGI::Session Simple Example by mull

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