RE: [cgiapp] CGI.pm help

["Dan Horne" <suppressed>]

Hi Kevin
 
You need to pass in your values as a hash reference, i.e.
 
print $CGI->popup_menu(-name=>'menu_name', 
            -values=>\%menu_values); 

 
By the way, I don't know if you're aware, but this list supports the
CGI::Application web development framework not CGI applications in general.
People here are still quite helpful, but you may find perlmonks.org as the
best place for general Perl questions
 
Dan


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From: Kevin Mullin [mailto:suppressed 
Sent: Sunday, 21 January 2007 8:42 a.m.
To: suppressed
Subject: [cgiapp] CGI.pm help



Is this the right mailing list to ask these kinds of questions? 

I'm having problems with the popup_menu CGP.pm method.  I have it working
with code that looks like this: 

print $CGI->popup_menu(-name=>'menu_name', 
            -values=>('eenie'=>'one', 
                      'meenie'=>'two', 
                      'minie'=>'three')); 

wher CGI is the CGI.pm object created before with $CGI = new CGI; 

The above works just fine.  Then, I tried to create a hash with the values
I'm giving to popup_menu (which the books says I can do) with this code: 

%menu_values = ('eenie'=>'one', 
              'meenie'=>'two', 
              'minie'=>'three'); 
print $CGI->popup_menu(-name=>'menu_name', 
            -values=>%menu_values); 

But when this is run from my web browser, I see the code it generates is: 

<select name="menu_name" three="meenie" one="minie" two> 
<option value="eenie">eenie</option> 
</select> 

Which, of course, doesn't work.  What am I doing wrong? 





Kevin Mullin
Sr. Analyst
IBM Corporation
(206) 345-7068
suppressed 	 <http://www.ibm.com/ibm/values/>