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Id: 52646
Status: resolved
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Queue: CGI
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Requestors: michaelgang [...] gmail.com
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  Thu Dec 10 04:20:39 2009 michaelgang [...] gmail.com - Ticket created
Subject: using cgi hidden when name of the param was already set ignores -value tag
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:20:09 +0200
To: bug-CGI.pm [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Michael Gang <michaelgang [...] gmail.com>
Hi all, In the following script i would expect use CGI; use strict; use warnings; my $cgi = CGI->new(); $cgi->param('a','b'); my $input = $cgi->hidden(-name=>'a', -value=>'c',); print $input; That i would get <input type="hidden" name="a" value="c" />. I get the input <input type="hidden" name="a" value="b" /> Why do i get it ? Thanks, David
  Thu Dec 10 12:28:24 2009 yanick.champoux [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #52646] using cgi hidden when name of the param was already set ignores -value tag
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:27:54 -0500
To: bug-CGI.pm [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Yanick Champoux <yanick.champoux [...] gmail.com>
On December 10, 2009 04:20:41 am michael gang via RT wrote: Show quoted text
> $cgi->param('a','b'); > my $input = $cgi->hidden(-name=>'a', > -value=>'c',); > > print $input; > > That i would get <input type="hidden" name="a" value="c" />. > > I get the input <input type="hidden" name="a" value="b" /> > > Why do i get it ?
hidden() will consider 'c' to be the default, which is replaced by the 'b' given as param. If you really want 'c', no matter what was submitted to the url, you can use the '-override' attribute: my $cgi = CGI->new(); $cgi->param( 'a', 'b' ); my $input = $cgi->hidden( -name => 'a', -value => 'c', -override => 1, ); print $input; [yanick@byakko CGI.pm (b2c)]$ perl -Ilib t/b2c.t 1..1 <input type="hidden" name="a" value="c" /> See the 'CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS' section of the CGI pod for more detailed explanations about this behavior. `/anick
  Thu Dec 10 12:28:25 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Dec 10 19:53:23 2009 MARKSTOS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Thanks the answer, Yanick. Marking as resolved.
  Thu Dec 10 19:53:25 2009 MARKSTOS [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'
  Fri May 23 14:29:34 2014 The RT System itself - Queue changed from CGI.pm to CGI