[sf-perl] passing checkboxes as hidden fields

[Thomas Brightbill]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, ken uhl wrote:

> The checkboxes are all all the named 'tagbucket'
> with different values,
> so I retrieve those this way
>
> use CGI;
> my $cgi = new CGI;
>
> my @boxes  = $cgi->param('tagbucket');
>
> This gives me a nice array of check box field names, but I don't know if
> they are selected,

Isn't the name of all the checkboxes "tagbucket"?

This should give you an array containing all the values of the *checked*
checkboxes (e.g. $cb_name_X, $cb_name_Y, $cb_name_Z, ....)

> Any suggestions ?

check the HTML.  are the names and values being properly generated for
the 'tagbucket' checkboxes on your form.

you could also add

  use Data::Dumper;

and

  print Dumper(@boxes)

to help troubleshoot.

HTH,

Thomas


Thomas Brightbill
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