in reply to Form Validation Ideas

I'm not quite sure that I know that FormBuilder is the option I'm looking for. I already know a bit of Javascript and I have all the javascript validation handled. Now its time for perl. Are there any solutions that do not deal with javascript validation, just perlside?

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Re^2: Form Validation Ideas
by stiller (Friar) on Feb 25, 2008 at 13:59 UTC
    For the part of your question about quickly testing a lot of params to see if they hava a value, you could do something like:
    my %missing;
for my $item (qw{fname sname age street city zip etc}){
   $missing{$item} = param($item) ? 0 : 1;
}

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    While you're at it you could do some basic cleansing inside the loop, and attack specific fields afterwards.
    hth
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      That works until you have a parameter where "0" is a valid value. 

      my @param_names = $q->param();
my %present_params;
@present_params{ @param_names } = (1) x @param_names;

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