cgi.pm - get parameters of form tags

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've got a CGI (written in perl, of course) that several different forms pass their data to.

I can get a list of form parameters and their values, but in addition to this I would like to also know the parameters of the parameters.

So if I have a form with

<INPUT TYPE="textfield" NAME="State" VALUE="gaseous">

my parameters hash will have a key State with a value 'gaseous'. I would also like to find out what the type is, or if it is readonly, etc.

Is this information even passed by the form?

Thanks.

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Re: cgi.pm - get parameters of form tags by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 22, 2004 at 15:12 UTC
Er, no you can't get it's type unless you contrive some mechanism to pass this metadata from the form yourself - of course the answer would be the same whatever programming language you were to use. /J\	[reply]
Re: cgi.pm - get parameters of form tags by borisz (Canon) on Jul 22, 2004 at 15:13 UTC
Is this information even passed by the form? No, the information is not submitted. But ou can add a hidden field to supply the information. Boris	[reply]
Re^2: cgi.pm - get parameters of form tags by skx (Parson) on Jul 23, 2004 at 10:53 UTC
Just beware of trusting the security of things stored in hidden fields. Steve --- steve.org.uk	[reply]