How to redisplay previously submitted text

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

I have set up a textarea form on my site that will enable authors to submit their written contributions to a mySQL database.
How can I make it possible for these guys and gals, if they have rewrites/updates of texts that they have already submitted, to go back and redisplay the form with the information they filled in previously so that all they have to do is institute their changes and resubmit?

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Re: How to redisplay previously submitted text by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 25, 2001 at 21:58 UTC
If you're using the CGI.pm shortcuts (and why shouldn't you?), you can set the default value using the `param` method: `use CGI qw/:all/; ... my $previous_value = "This is what I wrote before"; # fetch this someh +ow param('story', $previous_value); # sets default to previous ... print textarea('story'); # prints an input form element, defaulting to + previous value for it` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to redisplay previously submitted text by arturo (Vicar) on Apr 25, 2001 at 21:51 UTC
look at the `value` attribute for text input tags => `print "<input type='text' name='bar' value='$bar'>\n";`, where `$bar` is a perl variable containing the value from the DB. Be sure to escape quotes, or risk producing broken HTML. For `textarea`s, all you need to do is put the value in between the opening and closing tag, like so: `<textarea name="foo" rows=5 cols=80> $foo</textarea>` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How to redisplay previously submitted text by Anonymous Monk on Apr 01, 2003 at 08:12 UTC
amal homara kebera Originally posted as a Categorized Answer.	[reply]