The difference would be not be measurable unless you did a 1,000,000 instantations,
then timed the results, since both Perl and H::T are reasonably quick a text
processing.
Mathew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [htmltmpl] Select/option How to set "selected"?
> 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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