RE: [cgiapp] How to suppress print in run()?

2001-10-20 Thread Stephen Howard
Hi all, Elizabeth, what you might want to condsider is that the run mode parameter helps you indicate what you want your App to do right now, and subsequent actions need to be determined subsequently. So if you've got a sequence of Web form - Action - Next Page, where the order is not

RE: [cgiapp] CGI::Application global variables from form?

2001-09-29 Thread Stephen Howard
It is NEVER a good idea to place sensitive information (passwords, in this case) in cookies. They aren't any harder to tamper with than are hidden form fields. -Original Message- From: Tim Colson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 04:17 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: [cgiapp] Re: need help with can't locate method 'new' error (SOLVED)

2001-09-27 Thread Stephen Howard
I know i've had problems using 'use base' with perl versions prior to 5.6, even though i believe it was supposed to have been implemented earlier than that. glad to see you got it worked out. (I posted a similar issue to Perlmonks a few weeks ago) -Stephen -Original Message- From:

RE: [cgiapp] Error Handling with CGI::Application

2001-10-17 Thread Stephen Howard
Try to avoid over-optimising. Consider that any time an exception occurs that that occurance is an _exception_ to the norm. So it shouldn't happen frequently to begin with. Optimisations are best focused on what is normal, not what is unusual. -Stephen -Original Message- From:

[cgiapp] using the callback version of mode_param()

2001-12-27 Thread Stephen Howard
forgot to send this to the list... -Original Message- From: Stephen Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 09:56 AM To: George Jempty Subject: RE: [cgiapp] Grab output of a run mode without headers -- possibl e solution? Hey George, I've found the callback

RE: [cgiapp] XSL -- anybody actually use it?

2001-12-27 Thread Stephen Howard
There are hooks internal to CGI::Application that integrate it somewhat with HTML::Template, so output Jesse has taken into consideration. When I first joined this list I asked about adding hooks for Template Toolkit as well, but the discussion quickly pointed out that it is infeasible to

[cgiapp] FW: [cgiapp] popup_menu

2002-01-22 Thread Stephen Howard
forgot to include the list... -Original Message- From: Stephen Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 11:42 AM To: Sabherwal, Balvinder (MBS) Subject: RE: [cgiapp] popup_menu Not familiar with the Sybase module, I'd guess: my $dbnames = [ map { $_-[0

RE: [cgiapp] OO Perl, Inheritance and so on

2002-03-14 Thread Stephen Howard
Not quite, Mark, but close. use base 'CGI::Application' is just like use CGI::Application push @ISA, 'CGI::Application'; -Stephen -Original Message- From: Mark Stosberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:04 AM To: Dirk Wessner Cc: CGI::Application Mailing

RE: [cgiapp] OO Perl, Inheritance and so on

2002-03-14 Thread Stephen Howard
Hi Dirk, I think your question has less to do with CGI::Application than you think. Consider this. Put the logic to your unix-admin into a set of modules outside your web-application module: instancescript.cgi webapp.pm AccountEditor::Unix.pm AccountEditor::Solaris.pm ( 'ISA'

RE: [cgiapp] Image Submit Buttons

2002-03-18 Thread Stephen Howard
Depending on your user base you could consider using the button tag: button type=submit name=rm value=mode1img src=yourfirstimage.jpg //button button type=submit name=rm value=mode2img src=yoursecondimage.jpg //button However i seem to recall that the button tag does not render in Netscape 4