Get form input values via their ID tag in Perl

[Rick Bull]

I'm new to perl and I wrote a basic form parser library that extracts any form name/value pairs and returns them via a hash (attached, renamed from .lib to .txt). This works fine for form inputs with the NAME attribute, but using XHTML I want to replace NAME with ID. Is there anyway I can do it?


Here is the Perl file that extracts the arguments:

#/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
require "form_data.lib";

my %data = &parseForm;
my $loopItem;
print "content-type:text/plain\n\n";
foreach $loopItem (keys %data) {
  print "$loopItem = $data{$loopItem}\n";
}

[scoutt]

I don't think you can. the name symbolizes the variable for the text field. if you have ID then it wouldn't be very symbolized I would think. if you could do it that way then you could get the ID of a frame or table or pretty much anything.

[Rick Bull]

OK, thanks. I asked on another forum too, and they said not to bother, so I'll just stick to name.

[punkpie_uk]

scouts right, you can't do it. Forms only work with the name attribute, not id.

Why dont you put both the id and name attributes in for backwards compatibility?

[Rick Bull]

I might as well just use name init? I was only wanting to use ID because I don't think you can use name with XHTML 1.0 stict/XHTML 1.1 can you? I'll just use transitional for the FORM pages.