Re^2: Cannot clear cgi param (if it's really what I need to do)

[lepetitalbert]

Hi kyle,

I came accross the '-override', but as I

print hidden();

instead of

print $cgi->hidden()

it has no effect.

Thank you.

Have a nice day

[kyle]

This does not appear to be the case.

BEGIN {
    $ENV{QUERY_STRING} = 'mode=orig';
    $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} = 'GET';
}
use CGI qw( hidden );

print hidden( 'mode', 'second arg' ), "\n";
print hidden( -name     => 'mode',
              -default  => 'default', ), "\n";
print hidden( -name     => 'mode',
              -default  => 'forced',
              -override => 1 ), "\n";
__END__
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="orig"  />
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="orig"  />
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="forced"  />

Perhaps your code is doing something different from what you think it's doing?

[lepetitalbert]

Hi kyle,

As I print other hidden params

print hidden( 'day' , $day );

I printed this one

print hidden( 'mode' , 'save' , 1 );

and this don't work.

print hidden( -name => 'mode' , -default => 'save' , -override => 1);

works, but I don't understand why ?

Have a nice day.

[ikegami]

When you don't use the named parameter style, the first argument is the field name and the rest are values for the field.
print hidden( 'mode' , 'save' , 1 );
is short for
print hidden( -name => 'mode' , -default => [ 'save', 1 ]);