HTML::Template and Textarea

kiloway54 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm new to Perl and having a problem with populating a textarea with the results of a query using tmpl_var.

The tmpl form:

<html>
<form>
<p><label for="id" >Record ID</label> <input id="id" value="<TMPL_VAR 
+name=id>" style="width:363px" ></p>
<p><label for="dateOfIncident" >Date of Incident</label> <input id="da
+teOfIncident" value="<TMPL_VAR name=dateOfIncident>" style="width:363
+px" ></p>
<p><div><label for="descOfSymptoms">Description of Symptoms</label> <t
+extarea id="descOfSymptoms" style="width:363px" rows="4" <TMPL_VAR de
+scOfSymptoms> ></textarea></p>
</form>
</html>
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The cgi script:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI;
use DBI;
use HTML::Template;
my $query = new CGI;
my $id = $query->param('id');
my $db=DBI->connect( "dbi:Oracle:instance","user","password" ) || die(
+ $DBI::errstr . "\n");
my $SQL = "SELECT id, dateOfIncident, descOfSymptoms FROM KnownErrors 
+WHERE id='$id'";
my $sth=$db->prepare($SQL);
$sth->execute();
my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => '/usr/local/apache2/htd
+ocs/test.tmpl');
while (my $results = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref) {
$template->param(id => $results->[0]);
$template->param(dateOfIncident => $results->[1]);
$template->param(descOfSymptoms => $results->[2]);
}
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n", $template->output;
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The id and dateOfIncident populate with no problem. But I can't get the textarea to populate. If I change the textarea to a text box it populates just fine. For the textarea I've tried value="<TMPL_VAR descOfSymptoms>", name="<TMPL_VAR descOfSymptoms>", and no label: <TMPL_VAR descOfSymptoms>. All return nothing to textarea.

I'm working on Solaris 10 x86 in Vmware. Apache version is 2.3. Database is Oracle 10.2.0.2.

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Re: HTML::Template and Textarea by Anonymous Monk on May 02, 2011 at 06:37 UTC
See http://w3schools.com/tags/tag_textarea.asp, `<textarea> the content, the population</textarea>`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: HTML::Template and Textarea by tinita (Parson) on May 02, 2011 at 17:54 UTC
additional comment: since the problem is the forgotten closing >, I suggest, whenever you have problems like that, first try to find out if the problem is the module or just a typo on your side. Just fill in dummy text instead of the template var. If that also doesn't appear you are a big step closer to your problem.	[reply]