Name

default — (deprecated) return content of the named form input field, defaulting to value 'default'

ATTRIBUTES

Attribute Pos. Req. Default Description
name Yes Yes Name of the form variable.
default Yes Yes default Default value to return if the specified variable is missing or evaluates to a false value.
values_space Specify "values space" in which to perform the operation.
set Set form field variable value to the specified content.
filter Apply specified filter to the variable content. The application of a filter actually modifies the variable value in-place (in addition to, of course, displaying the filtered content).
keep 0 Only apply filter for display, and do not modify actual variable value?
scratch 0 Along with setting a form field value, also create the variable/content pair in the scratch space?
enable_itl 0 Allow ITL tags to appear in the output? By default, all "[" characters are encoded as "[".
enable_html 0 Allow HTML tags to appear in the output? By default, all "<" characters are encoded as "&lt;".
interpolate     0 interpolate output?
hide     0 Hide the tag return value?

DESCRIPTION

The tag returns the named form input field value. Any Interchange tags in the output are HTML- and ITL-escaped by default for security reasons.

This tag is very similar to [value], except that it provides the default value for the default= parameter.

BEHAVIOR

This tag does not appear to be affected by, or affect, the rest of Interchange.

EXAMPLES

Example: displaying user's first name

Hello, [default fname Anonymous]!

Example: displaying user's first name in a modifiable field

<form action="[process]">
  Hello, <input type="text" name="fname" value="[default fname Anonymous]" />!
</form>

TODO: Add a submit button


Example: displaying user's first name, or falling back to the default

Hello, [default fname Anonymous]!

NOTES

AVAILABILITY

default is available in Interchange versions:

4.6.0-5.9.0 (git-head)

SOURCE

Interchange 5.9.0:

Source: code/SystemTag/default.coretag
Lines: 23


# Copyright 2002-2007 Interchange Development Group and others
# 
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.  See the LICENSE file for details.
# 
# $Id: default.coretag,v 1.5 2007-03-30 23:40:49 pajamian Exp $

UserTag default             Order        name default
UserTag default             addAttr
UserTag default             PosNumber    2
UserTag default             Version      $Revision: 1.5 $
UserTag default             Routine      <<EOR
# Returns the text of a user entered field named VAR.
# Same as tag [value name=name default="string"] except
# returns 'default' if not present
sub {
  my($var, $default, $opt) = @_;
$opt->{default} = !(length $default) ? 'default' : $default;
  return tag_value($var, $opt);
}
EOR

AUTHORS

Interchange Development Group

SEE ALSO

DocBook! Interchange!