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

Hello,

Using HTML::FormFu, I'm trying to understand the data-structure required to populate a form with 'select' element values (options).

When I dump (Data::Dumper) the FormFu object, I see that the object structure looks similar to the following:

'name' => 'EmailDL', '_options' => [ { 'label_attributes' => {}, 'value' => 'm', 'container_attributes' => {}, 'label' => 'Male', 'attributes' => {} }, { 'label_attributes' => {}, 'value' => 'f', 'container_attributes' => {}, 'label' => 'Female', 'attributes' => {} } ],

Seeing this, I figured that the way to structure $form_input (being that $form_input = \%cgivars) would be something like the following:

'Firstname' => 'Faisal', 'EmailDL' => [ { 'value' => 'myvalue', 'label' => 'mylabel' } ],

However this doesn't seem to work. I've found that structuring $form_input correctly, and then issuing a $fu->default_values($form_input) to be simple and effective, except in this instance when I'm trying to include the select/options sub-structure.

So the question is: How should I structure 'EmailDL' above to correctly populate 'select' options when doing $fu->default_values($form_input) or $fu->process($form_input) ?

Any guidance on this would be appreciated, thanks!
-Bobby

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Re: Populating $form_input with 'select' element options? (HTML::FormFu)
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 04, 2011 at 23:21 UTC