Re^2: HTML::Template with checkbox

I have my cgi script very similar to what you have. hastable contains the filenames to be output it. I don't have the f1,f2...values for the check, not sure if it's needed.

$q = new CGI;
$template = HTML::Template->new(filename => "$displaypage",
                                          associate => $q);
  my @loop;
  foreach $index (sort {$a <=> $b} keys %hashtable) {
    my ($fn) = @{$hashtable{$index}};
    my %row = (
       index => $index,
       fn    => $fn ,
       check => " ");
       push (@loop, \%row);
  }
  $template->param(files_loop=>  \@loop);
  send_header();
  print $template->output;
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so after user click on the checkboxes for the files that he wants to download, then he click on the "download" button, in my cgi script it will go to "sub downloadFiles", in here I am not sure how to get the values of the checkboxes or filenames , I tried this :

  sub downloadfiles {
   @files = $q->param("field");
    ...
  }
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It did not get any values in @files. Not sure what values it should returned. I tried you suggestion adding f1,f2 with instead using index number 1,2,3... but still don't know how to get the checkboxes values. Please help.

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Re^3: HTML::Template with checkbox by GrandFather (Saint) on Sep 05, 2012 at 23:34 UTC
Oh, silly me. You don't provide a value attribute for your checkbox so nothing gets returned. You need something like: `<td><input type="checkbox" name="field" value="<TMPL_VAR NAME="fi +lename">">` [download] for your checkbox line. That will return the file name if the checkbox is checked. True laziness is hard work	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: HTML::Template with checkbox by bebewinla (Novice) on Sep 06, 2012 at 00:34 UTC
how do you fetch the checkbox value ? I tried using q->param("field") it returns nothing, do you think the associate => $q is wrong when creating new template. should I take it out, but then how do I fetch the checkbox values `$q = new CGI; $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => "$displaypage", associate => $q);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: HTML::Template with checkbox by Anonymous Monk on Nov 03, 2014 at 02:16 UTC
Hope you got the answer by this time now	[reply]