seeting values from radio elements

Ottawa_IWOV

Probably a really simple answer to this one. Try to set the value selected from a radio button in a CGI task.

Here is how I am setting up the radio elements:

my @review =
(
{name => "typea",
label => "Type A"}
{name => "typeb",
label => "Type B"}
{name => "typec",
label => "Type C"}
);

Here is how I am printing them in the form:


for my $ref ( @$review ) {
my $name = $ref->{name};
my $label = $ref->{label};
#my $value = $task->GetVariable($name);
print '<tr><td><input type = "radio" name= "review_type"
value="', $name,
'">', $label, '</td></tr>', "\n";
}

Which outputs fine (notice I hardcoded the name value)

Can I set the value in this fashion:


for my $href ( @revieew) {
my $name = $href->{name};
my $value = $cgi->{form}{$name};
$job->SetVariable($name, $value);

It doesn't work for me

Any help would be greatly appreciated



Lucas Cochrane
lucas.cochrane@baucanada.com

Dwayne

What sort of error are you seeing? From a brief scan of the code, the only potential problem I'm seeing is with your call to SetVariable(). I think that the variable needs to be created before you can use SetVariable(). You use CreateVariable() if it doesn't exists. So you'd do something like

$job->SetVariable($name, $value) && $job->CreateVariable($name, $value);

which will try to set the variable, and, if that fails, try to create it.

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