From: Vandemoortele Simon <delirious_nospamplz@...>
Date: 2003-01-22T17:39:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Q: do i need PStore for this or something else ?

ahoward <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> wrote:
> since your application is a cgi, requires a database, requires session
> management, and should be easy to code i'd look at using my
> CGI::Session::Pstore module from

This is something I would really like to discuss even though I might go
a little of topic (sorry).

I am entirely new to CGI scripting and trying to make an interface to
edit my dynamic photo-album (add sections, pictures, etc). I've
discovered in the process how inefficient it can be to code a UI with
! since every time you need more input from the user you have
to send him to another (or the same) script and doing so *lose all the
input you have collected*.
Until now I've been solving that problem by sending all the collected
input along as 'hidden params' but that's a lot of work.
Is there a better way ? Would that be CGI::Session ? 
or CGI::Session::PStore ?


Simon

P.S.: Plz understand that I do have a book about ruby, access to
google and RAA but my experience is so limited that I can't make
sense of the information I find there. (Maybe I should find my way to
more general information about CGI since that's the knowledge I'm
lacking. Any pointers ?)

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