%fdat and 0-length values

[James Ponder <ja...@db.com>]

Hi,

I think I have found a bug, or at least an undocumented feature.  If the query string contains a field with a 0-length value (i.e. the empty string) Embperl does not pass this into %fdat, instead, it leaves it not existing in the hash (effectively undefined).

For example:  ?entry=&foo=bar and ?foo=bar both result in $fdat{entry} not existing, when what should happen is that $fdat{entry} is "" in the first case.

This makes it impossible to distinguish between the user entering an empty value and the field not being present.  This is often seen when you have a page that can be used to add an entry and modify an entry where the identifier being present is used to determine if you should be adding or modifying, for example:

modify existing item "foo":
      item.html?entry=foo

add new item:
      item.html

All ok, until you have the situation where you can have the empty string identifier:

modify existing item "":
      item.html?entry=


Best wishes, James
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Re: %fdat and 0-length values

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

Hi,
>
> I think I have found a bug, or at least an undocumented feature.

It's neither a bug nor undocumented. Just set optAllFormFields in
EMBPERL_OPTIONS in your httpd.conf and you get all fields.

BTW. optAllFormFields will be on by default for the next 2.0 beta

Gerald


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