Generally, here's how I've dealt with it:
Make your link on the welcome page something along the lines of:
<a href="_state=login'>Log In</a>
In login.pm you'll need to cover both the case where they're coming to the
login page via a link (hint: make sure the username and password params
aren't set or make sure that only _state is set), and the case where the
username and password are set and should be processed.
Andrew
On 6/28/05 8:59 AM, "John S J Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm just starting to try to wrap my head around C::P::Hidden (or vice
> versa), so it's entirely possible I'm not thinking about this properly
> -- but I can't figure out the Right Way to link to a non-default page.
>
> Suppose I have two "pages": Welcome and Login. (A "page" is a
> combination of a .pm and a .tt; there's only one actual CGI.) I have
>
> sub config_default_page { "Welcome" }
>
> in the base My::App.pm.
>
> In Welcome.tt, I want to have an <a> element where the href attribute
> takes me to the Login page. It seems like I have two options:
>
> 1) use an onClick attribute to manipulate the hidden _state field to
> change its value to 'Login'
> 2) encode '?_state=Login' into the URL in the href attribute (or various
> other schnanigans with specifying some state in the URL -- use
> 'state=login' and switch on that in the respond_per_page() in the
> base class, for example)
>
> Is that pretty much accurate or is there some slickness I'm missing?
>
> thanks,
> john.
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