Jason, thanks. The way you do the push helped me. I was putting the values
into a temporary hash and then assigning the hash as a reference. I wanted
to do it more directly like you did, but didn't know the semantics.
Regarding this:
> $selected = 1 if i_want_this_option_selected( $option );
and
> <TMPL_LOOP NAME=OCCUPATION_LOOP>
> <option value="<TMPL_VAR NAME=VAL>" <TMPL_IF
> NAME="SELECTED">SELECTED</TMPL_IF>><TMPL_VAR NAME=TEXT></option>
> </TMPL_LOOP>
Do you think this is more efficient, or is it more efficient to do as Puneet
suggested:
> $selected = ' selected' if i_want_this_option_selected( $option );
and
> <TMPL_LOOP NAME=OCCUPATION_LOOP>
> <option value="<TMPL_VAR NAME=VAL>"<TMPL_VAR NAME=SELECTED>><TMPL_VAR
NAME=TEXT></option>
> </TMPL_LOOP>
It seems to me the latter would be more efficient? If I am already testing
my criteria for selected, then I don't have to do an "if" again in the HTML.
In other words, is it more efficient to resolve the variable contents, or to
test variable?
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Purdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [htmltmpl] Select/option How to set "selected"?
> Hi Mark,
>
> How are you determining which option to pre-select? It might be better
> to use HTML::FillInForm.
>
> Other than that, here's what you would do if you want to re-invent the
> wheel:
>
> ### In your programming code ###
> my $template = HTML::Template->new( 'filename' => 'file.TMPL' );
> my $occloop_ar = []; # occupation loop array ref.
> while ( my ( $option, $value ) = $sth->fetchrow_array ) {
> my $selected = 0;
> $selected = 1 if i_want_this_option_selected( $option );
> push @$array_ref, {
> 'VAL' => $option,
> 'TEXT' => $value,
> 'SELECTED' => $selected,
> };
> }
> $template->param( 'OCCUPATION_LOOP' => $occloop_ar );
>
> ### Then in your template code ###
> Occupation: <select name="occupation">
> <TMPL_LOOP NAME=OCCUPATION_LOOP>
> <option value="<TMPL_VAR NAME=VAL>" <TMPL_IF
> NAME="SELECTED">SELECTED</TMPL_IF>><TMPL_VAR NAME=TEXT></option>
> </TMPL_LOOP>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason
>
>
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