Easiest way to dynamically add fields to mechanize

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

Hi everyone.

I was hoping someone could help me find a way to dynamically add fields to a WWW::Mech form. It's easier to show than explan what I need to do.

     my @cats = split(", ", $email_cat);
     
     $mech->submit_form(
         form_name =>'post',
             fields => 
             {
               'post_title' =>  '',
               'post_category[]' => ''       
             }
     );
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post_category is a checkbox field with a name shared with lots of other checkboxes. They are all numerically named though, so there is a post_category[] checkbox with a value of 1, just like there is of 2 and 3. I need to create just the checkboxes for those listed in $cats in the above example. They are comma and space separated. Let's pretend..

my @cats = (1, 2, 5, 10, 44);
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How do I make the number of post_category references dynamic to the size and values of my @cats? I hope this makes sense but

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Re: Easiest way to dynamically add fields to mechanize by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2011 at 21:15 UTC
I don't get it, I think you should see Re^5: WWW::Mechanize clicking checkboxes	[reply]
Re: Easiest way to dynamically add fields to mechanize by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 21, 2011 at 21:41 UTC
If you really must add inputs to a form, `my $input = HTML::Form::Input->new(...); $input->add_to_form($form);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Easiest way to dynamically add fields to mechanize by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2011 at 23:50 UTC
What I mean is how do I make it fill in two post cat fields if the array has two elements or five fields if the array has five elements? I will never know ahead of time how many checkboxes will be checked	[reply]
Re^2: Easiest way to dynamically add fields to mechanize by Anonymous Monk on Mar 22, 2011 at 01:06 UTC
Exactly like I already showed you, honest	[reply]