From: "Mark Haney" <ma...@abemblem.com>
Subject: [Templates] populating dropdown box from db
HI all, I'm rather new to the TT, but so far I'm liking it's flexibility.
The badger book is a great resource as well. But, I'm having an issue I
can't seem to find an answer to and am hoping the list can help me.
I want to populate a drop down box with data from a database. I'm pulling
the factory name from a table to put in the drop down box so that the user
can select which factory to pull shift reports from. Here's what I have so
far:
in the .pl file:
my $cgi = new CGI;
my $dbh = DBI->connect(config('data_source'), config('username'),
config('password'));
my $dao = EmbMon::DAO->new($dbh);
my $sql = qq/SELECT abbreviation from factory/;
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute();
while ($row = $sth->fetchrow_array)
{
push @rows, $row;
}
my $file = 'shift_rpt.html';
my $vars = {
'cgi' =>CGI->new(),
'version' => "0.5.8.2012",
'factory' => \@rows
};
$template->process($file, $vars)
|| die "Template process failed: ", $template->error(), "\n";
in the HTML template:
<form name="myform" method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/shift_rpt.cgi">
[% FOREACH factory IN factory %]
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Select
Factory:</strong><br><select name="factory"><OPTION>
<option value=some_value>$factory</option>
</select>
<input class="button" type="submit" value="Run Report">
</form>
Is this the proper way to do this, or is there a better/more flexible way?
Am I missing something?
Hi,
I think you want something like:
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Select Factory:</strong><br><select
name="factory">
[% FOREACH some_value IN factory %]
<option value="[% some_value %]">[% some_value %]</option>
[% END %]
</select>
Octavian
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