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FillInForm

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: perl v5.6.0
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NAME

HTML::FillInForm - Populates HTML Forms with CGI data.

DESCRIPTION

This module automatically inserts data from a previous HTML form into the HTML input, textarea and select tags.It is a subclass of the HTML::Parser manpage and uses it to parse the HTML and insert the values into the form tags.

One useful application is after a user submits an HTML form without filling outrequired field. HTML::FillInForm can be used to redisplay the HTML formwith all the form elements containing the submitted info.

SYNOPSIS

This examples fills data into a HTML form stored in `$htmlForm' from CGI parameters that are storedin `$q'. For example, it will set the value of any ``name'' textfield to ``John Smith''.

  my $q = new CGI;

  $q->param("name","John Smith");

  my $fif = new HTML::FillInForm;  my $output = $fif->fill(scalarref => \$html,                          fobject => $q);

METHODS

new

Call `new()' to create a new FillInForm object:

  $fif = new HTML::FillInForm;

fill

To fill in a HTML form contained in a scalar `$html':

  $output = $fif->fill(scalarref => \$html,             fobject => $q);

Returns filled in HTML form contained in `$html' with data from `$q'.`$q' is required to have a `param()' method that works likeHTML::FillInForm's `param()'. A good candidate would be a CGI.pmquery object.

  $output = $fif->fill(scalarref => \$html,             fdat => \%fdat);

Returns filled in HTML form contained in `$html' with data from `%fdat'.

Alternately you can use

  $output = $fif->fill(arrayref => \@array_of_lines,             fobject => $q);

and

  $output = $fif->fill(file => 'form.tmpl',             fobject => $q);

VERSION

This documenation describes HTML::FillInForm module version 0.02.

BUGS

This module has not been tested extensively. Please submitand bug reports to tjmatherAATTalumni.princeton.edu.

NOTES

Requires Perl 5.005 and the HTML::Parser manpage version 3.

I wrote this module because I wanted to be able to insert CGI data into HTML forms,but without combining the HTML and Perl code. CGI.pm and Embperl allow you soinsert CGI data into forms, but require that you mix HTML with Perl.

AUTHOR

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