Sticky Form Fields

CGI.pm supports sticky form fields. When forms are regenerated in response to a form submission, fields keep values.

A simple way of making stateful pages.

Script 4: tryit.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI ':standard';

print header;
print start_html('A Simple Example'),
    h1('A Simple Example'),
    start_form,
    "What's your name? ",textfield('name'),
    p,
    "What's the combination?",
    p,
    checkbox_group(-name=>'words',
		   -values=>['eenie','meenie','minie','moe'],
		   -defaults=>['eenie','minie']),
    p,
    "What's your favorite color? ",
    popup_menu(-name=>'color',
	       -values=>['red','green','blue','chartreuse']),
    p,
    submit,
    end_form,
    hr;

if (param()) {
    print 
	"Your name is: ",em(param('name')),
	p,
	"The keywords are: ",em(join(", ",param('words'))),
	p,
	"Your favorite color is: ",em(param('color')),
	hr;
}
print end_html;
  

What it Looks Like

http://localhost/perl/conference/tryit.pl
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Lincoln D. Stein, lstein@cshl.org
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Last modified: Fri Jun 18 08:23:14 EDT 1999