Hi Jason -- > I need a way to pass parameters between the scripts. The > logical choice > is through the user's session, but that makes more than a few places > that I would have to check to clear the message field if it > is not needed. > > Is there something simple I'm missing?
(That is certainly the same question I would ask -- stress on the "simple" part. I am a fan of simplicity.) Unfortunately, I don't have a more simple suggestion for you. The ability to send messages between requests, screens, or cgi-apps is a tough one. In the last couple years the best system I've used has been the architecture devised by Sam Tregar, built on Apache::Session. It works in essentially the exact manner you describe -- messages are pushed into the user's session, and are then pulled out on the next request and displayed on the top of the page. The only improvement I can suggest is that you centralize the display of messages in a Perl module. For instance, you might create a CGI-App super class and override load_tmpl() to put pending messages at the top of the page. TTYL, -Jesse- -- Jesse Erlbaum The Erlbaum Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 212-684-6161 Fax: 212-684-6226 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
