Re: Can HTML::FillInForm handle multiple checkboxes?

Your error is, that you call $query->param('typeofinfo') in scalar context. If you want a list ask for a list ;-).
This example check 1 and 4.

use HTML::FillInForm;
use HTML::Template;
use CGI;
my $query = CGI->new;
my $html = <<__TEMPLATE__;
<input type="checkbox" name="typeofinfo" value="1" /> Program<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="typeofinfo" value="2" /> Abstracts<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="typeofinfo" value="3" /> Exhibits<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="typeofinfo" value="4" /> Registration<br 
+/>
__TEMPLATE__

my $fillinformvalues = { typeofinfo => [ 1, 4 ] };
my $form = new HTML::FillInForm;
my $page = $form->fill(
   scalarref  => \$html,
    fdat        => $fillinformvalues );
print $page;
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Boris

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Re^2: Can HTML::FillInForm handle multiple checkboxes? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 05, 2005 at 15:17 UTC
The fix is: `$fillinformvalues = { typeofinfo => [ $query->param('typeofinfo') ] }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Can HTML::FillInForm handle multiple checkboxes? by bradcathey (Prior) on Aug 05, 2005 at 16:51 UTC
Perfect. What a couple of brackets won't do for ya! I knew that the CGI was returning a list, I just didn't know how to get it into my $fillinformvalues hash. Good stuff. Thanks! —Brad "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot	[reply]
Re^2: Can HTML::FillInForm handle multiple checkboxes? by tinita (Parson) on Aug 05, 2005 at 15:26 UTC
Your error is, that you call `$query->param('typeofinfo')` in scalar context. nope, in the original post it's called in list context which is causing the error. i think that's what you meant.	[reply] [d/l]