[ic] [button] and mv_form_profile question.

JOHN interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Sat Mar 1 21:52:01 2003


---- On 01 Mar 2003 10:52:25, Andrew Baerg
(interchmail@baerg.ca) wrote:

> As far as I know, putting the mv_form_profile inside the 
button, should
> not work. By doing this, mv_form_profile is getting set 
__after__ it is
> read.  From your example, it doesn't look like your [button] 
is doing
> anything other than setting mv_form_profile , so you could 
just do the
> following instead:
> 
> <input type=image src="__THEME__/placeorder.gif" 
name=mv_form_profile
> value=my_validate>
> 
> > If I put mv_form_profile in a [button ...] it didn't work. 
But 
> > if I set it as <input type=hidden 
name="mv_form_profile" .....
> > it worked. Shouldn't both work? I also checked that if the 
> > mv_todo, mv_form_profile were set right and they were.
> > 
> > 
> > <html>
> > <body>
> > <BR>
> > [cgi mv_todo] [cgi mv_form_profile] [cgi mv_doit]<BR>
> > [scratch my_validate]
> > [update values]
> > 
> > <form action="[process]" method="POST">
> > <input type=hidden name="mv_session_id" value="[data 
session 
> > id]">
> > 
> > <input type=hidden name="mv_form_profile" 
value="my_validate">
> > 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > If I put the above here it works.
> > 
> > 
> > [error name=textfield std_label="Generic Textfield" 
required=1]
> > <input type=text name="textfield" value="[value 
textfield]"><br>
> > 
> > [set my_validate]
> > &success=index
> > &fail=@@MV_PAGE@@
> > textfield=required
> > &fatal=1
> > [/set]
> > 
> > [button
> >         name="mv_click"
> >         src="__THEME__/placeorder.gif"
> >         text="Go"
> >         hidetext=1
> > ]
> > mv_todo=return
> > mv_form_profile=my_validate
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > If I remove <input type=hidden name="mv_form_profile" ... 
and 
> > put this here it won't work.
> > 
> > 
> > [/button]
> > 
> > </form>
> > </body>
> > </html>

ah... thanks! that did it for me.
Question:
does mv_todo get set after it too? Is there anything else I 
should beware of setting using [button ..]?

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