cgi script does not pull the values from the radio buttons

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

Hello Monks,

I am having dificulties trying to pull the values from radio buttons in the html script below, with the my cgi script:

<tr>
    <td><span class="category">Reporting Dashboard</span></td>
    <td><input type=text  size=18 name="dashboardUse" value=""></td>
    <td><span class="note"><input type=radio name="dashboard" id="dash
+board1" value="">1&nbsp;<input type=radio name="dashboard" id="dashbo
+ard2" value="">2&nbsp;<input type=radio name="dashboard" id="dashboar
+d3" value="">3&nbsp;<input type=radio name="dashboard" id="dashboard4
+" value="">4&nbsp;<input type=radio name="dashboard" id="dashboard5" 
+value="">5</span></td>
</tr>
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The script runs with out error, and sends me the formatted email. However, I do not see the values for the radio buttons. Here is some of my code. I am not certain how to go about fixing this. In my script I have pointed to the parameter named "dashboard" where the value would be stored after a person clicks the button.

Any info would be welcomed.

my ($reportingdashboard) = $main::cgi->param('dashboardUse');
        my ($satisfactiondash) = $main::cgi->param('dashboard');
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Thanks again for all of your help.

newbie Satanya

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(Ovid) Re: cgi script does not pull the values from the radio buttons by Ovid (Cardinal) on Sep 07, 2001 at 23:39 UTC
This is not a Perl problem. All of your radio buttons have the attribute of `value=""`, so no value is sent regardless of whether or not you check one of the radio buttons. Assign them values and that will take care of you problem. Also, you shouldn't use a globally defined CGI object. You're just begging for trouble. See 'use strict' is not Perl for more info. Cheers, Ovid Vote for paco! Join the Perlmonks Setiathome Group or just click on the the link and check out our stats.	[reply]
Re: (Ovid) Re: cgi script does not pull the values from the radio buttons by Anonymous Monk on Sep 08, 2001 at 00:22 UTC
Thanks so much for the info. I will tell my html people that the need to fix there code. Thanks a bunch. This helps so much. Satanya	[reply]
Re: cgi script does not pull the values from the radio buttons by Jazz (Curate) on Sep 08, 2001 at 04:11 UTC
Actually, it looks like the html code is off. `<input type=radio name="dashboard" id="dashboard2" value="">2` Here, if someone clicks this button, the value assigned is blank (`value=""`). It seems like you're using `id` the way you really wanted to use `value`... `<input type="radio" name="dashboard" value="dashboard1">1 <input type="radio" name="dashboard" value="dashboard2">2 <input type="radio" name="dashboard" value="dashboard3">3 <input type="radio" name="dashboard" value="dashboard4">4 <input type="radio" name="dashboard" value="dashboard5">5` [download] Is there a reason why you're not using CGI.pm to generate your form code? `my %radio_field_values = ( 'dashboard1' => 1, 'dashboard2' => 2, 'dashboard3' => 3, 'dashboard4' => 4, 'dashboard5' => 5, ); print radio_group( -name => 'dashboard', -labels => \%radio_field_values, -values => [ keys %radio_field_values ], );` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]