Question

my question is how would I use an HTML::Template tag inside a value of form field to change that field. For example

<table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="1">
        <tr> 
          <td align="right">File:</td> 
          <td>
        <input type="file" name="upload" value= style="width:400px">
          </td> 
        </tr> 
        <tr> 
          <td align="right">File Name:</td> 
          <td> 
            <input type="text" name="filename" style="width:400px" value=""  > 
          </td> 
        </tr> 
        <tr> 
          <td align="right">Title:</td> 
          <td> 
            <input type="text" name="title" style="width:400px" value="" /> 
          </td> 
        </tr> 
        <tr> 
          <td align="right">Date:</td> 
          <td> 
            <input type="text" name="date" style="width:400px" value="" /> 
          </td> 
        </tr> 
        <tr> 
         <td colspan="2" align="right"> 
           <input type="button" value="Cancel"> 
           <input type="submit" name="action" value="Upload" /> 
         </td> 
        </tr> 
      </table> 

I want the value to have a <TMPL_VAR> variable in it.

Answer 1

You use it the same way you’d use a template variable anywhere else:

<input type="text" name="date" style="width:400px" value="<TMPL_VAR NAME=date>" /> 

Yeah, it’s ugly and it breaks your HTML validator. Which is one of the many reasons why I like Template Toolkit better.