From: "Rajeev Prasad" <rp.ne...@yahoo.com>
Hi,
without using CGI.pm how can i collect the values of a multiselect element?
say for e.g.:
< select name="hobbies" id="hobbies" multiple>
<option>Reading Books</option>
<option>Writing Stories</option>
<option>Collecting Coins</option>
<option>Cross Stitching</option>
<option>Tenis</option>
<option>Playing Cricket</option>
< /select>
when the form is submitted, i have to get the selected values in an array.
how can i do that?
*if you are curious, (as per my understanding) even though CGI.pm would make
it easy to get values out of parameters passed to the script by the web
form. I would still have to do validation of values passed seperately. so
why should i use a big module just to collect form data? i am using TT to
display the form/HTML and javascript to validate input.
**
It depends if the form is submitted using GET or POST and it is much harder
because you will need to do aditional work to decode the URL-encoded
elements, and you may make errors.
If you don't want to use CGI because is too big, you may want to use
CGI::Simple.
It doesn't matter if you validate the data using JS client side. It should
be also validated server-side also, but this has nothing to do with the way
you get the data from browser.
Octavian
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