> I read on w3 that they suggest 'post' for when there are no
> visible changes, and 'get' when there are (or perhaps the other way
> around). This seems a bit confusing. What is the difference in
> laymen's terms?
Other way around.
GET is to be used when there is no side effect.
e.g. when
Hi Darren,
i've put in the force parameter as you suggested, and things seem to be
working a lot better. I think the problem may now lie in the method of
the form. I read on w3 that they suggest 'post' for when there are no
visible changes, and 'get' when there are (or perhaps the other way
aro
Hi Etienne,
CGI forms are "sticky"--they remember their value from the previous call,
even if you manually set a value. Try adding a -force=>1 to the hashref
that gets passed into the submit function
($q->submit(-name=>'submit',-value=>'Modify',-force=>1), for instance), which
should tell CGI.pm
Hi,
I'm having trouble with a script is use for posting, modifying,
and submiting queued news to a database that gets used by another script
to (to display stuff in the database).
When no parameters are passed in, the script displays a list of all the
articles waiting to be posted (from a databas
