[html-formfu] Populating $form_input with 'select' element options?

J. Bobby Lopez bobby.lopez at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 17:41:52 GMT 2011


Hello,

I'm trying to understand the data-structure required to populate a
form with 'select' element values (options).

When I dump (Data::Dumper) the FormFu object, I see that the structure
looks similar to the following:


'name' => 'EmailDL',

'_options' => [

              {

                'label_attributes' => {},

                'value' => 'm',

                'container_attributes' => {},

                'label' => 'Male',

                'attributes' => {}

              },

              {

                'label_attributes' => {},

                'value' => 'f',

                'container_attributes' => {},

                'label' => 'Female',

                'attributes' => {}

              }

            ],

Seeing this, I figured that the way to structure $form_input (being
that $form_input = \%cgivars) would be something like the following:

          'Firstname' => 'Faisal',
          'EmailDL' => [
                         {
                           'value' => 'myvalue',
                           'label' => 'mylabel'
                         }
                       ],

However this doesn't seem to work.  I've found that structuring
$form_input correctly, and then issuing a
$fu->default_values($form_input) to be simple and effective, except in
this instance when I'm trying to include the select/options
sub-structure.

So the question is:  How should I structure 'EmailDL' above to
correctly populate 'select' options when doing
$fu->default_values($form_input) or $fu->process($form_input) ?

Thanks in advance,
-Bobby

Any guidance on this would be appreciated, thanks!



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