Can"t use www::mechanize with an array form field

I have a website written in PHP/MySQL.

I'm using www::mechanize and www::mechanize::formfiller to test the site.

I declare one of the form fields as an array in PHP like so:

echo " value=\"$cat_id\">".VarPrepForDisplay($title)."";

which in turn creates the following HTML code that www::mechanize uses
to test the code.




this makes the cat field an array. the problem is that when I try to
use www::mechanize to submit values to this filed I get the following
error:

Illegal value '211' for field 'cat[]' at /path.pl line 89

Does anyone know how I can submit values to an array based form field?

Re: Can"t use www::mechanize with an array form field

Tim writes:

> I have a website written in PHP/MySQL.
>
> I'm using www::mechanize and www::mechanize::formfiller to test the site.
>
> I declare one of the form fields as an array in PHP like so:
>
> echo " > value=\"$cat_id\">".VarPrepForDisplay($title)."";
>
> which in turn creates the following HTML code that www::mechanize uses
> to test the code.
>
>
>
>
> this makes the cat field an array. the problem is that when I try to
> use www::mechanize to submit values to this filed I get the following
> error:
>
> Illegal value '211' for field 'cat[]' at /path.pl line 89
>
> Does anyone know how I can submit values to an array based form field?

I don't know what it takes in WWW::Mechanize land, but if you have
access to the HTML::Form object you can do this:

$form->param("cat[]", 211, 213);

This will turn on the "211" and "213" check box and all the other
"cat[]" checkboxes off.

Regards,
Gisle

Re: Can"t use www::mechanize with an array form field

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:02:14AM -0800, Gisle Aas (gisle@ActiveState.com) wrote:
> > Illegal value '211' for field 'cat[]' at /path.pl line 89

Is there actually a cat[] field that has a value of 211? Or are you
trying to fudge an existing field to have a value that it didn't
originally?

xoa

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Re: Can"t use www::mechanize with an array form field

>
> Is there actually a cat[] field that has a value of 211? Or are you
> trying to fudge an existing field to have a value that it didn't
> originally?
>

No the value '211' is valid. When I switch the form code back to a
single value - for example without declaring the field as an array as
follows then my
www::mechanize code works fine. So I know it's because of the array
field declaration.

Thanks for the HTML::Form suggestion - I'll try that.