%idat does not seem to bind

[Terrence Brannon <pr...@yahoo.com>]

I have a multi-screen web application and I wrote a
little macro to copy fdat to udat that I Execute on
each page:
[$ foreach $key (keys %fdat) $]
        [- $udat{$key} = $fdat{$key} -]
[$ endforeach $]

but then I looked closer at the docs and noticed
something called %idat which seems to do this
automatically from page to page....

however, by the third screen, it was empty and my
macro had done it's job.

Any input into why %idat is empty and hence doesnt
equal what I copied into %udat?


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RE: %idat does not seem to bind

[Gerald Richter <ri...@ecos.de>]

>
> I have a multi-screen web application and I wrote a
> little macro to copy fdat to udat that I Execute on
> each page:
> [$ foreach $key (keys %fdat) $]
>         [- $udat{$key} = $fdat{$key} -]
> [$ endforeach $]
>
> but then I looked closer at the docs and noticed
> something called %idat which seems to do this
> automatically from page to page....
>
> however, by the third screen, it was empty and my
> macro had done it's job.
>
> Any input into why %idat is empty and hence doesnt
> equal what I copied into %udat?
>

%idat contains the input fields on the page you are just in:

If you have

 <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="A" VALUE="1">
 <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="B" VALUE="2">

in your page

%idat will contain A => 1 and B => 2

if you look at it after these two inputs. It will _not_ persist to any
following page. You may use [$ hidden $9 to generate hidden form fields out
of the values in %fdat to get them to the next page.

Gerald




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