[ic] Clearing Form Values from Session

Ed LaFrance interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Wed Dec 5 15:41:01 2001


At 11:50 AM 12/05/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I'm sure this must be a simple thing to do, but I have searched for 2
>days, and have not been able to find the answer.  What I want to do is
>clear out all the form values from the session database, with out the
>user having to click on any buttons. I have a form that the user fills
>out, the values are sent to a 2nd page for viewing, an email is sent,
>and the data is written to a database table.  Once it has been written
>to that database table, we no longer need the info stored in the session
>database and want the form values to be cleared so they can then return
>to the form with cleared values. I would like to do this on the 2nd
>page, but haven't figured it out. I'm running 4.8.2 with perl 5.6.1
>
>Any ideas on this would be much appreciated.
>

Usually you can do something like this with [calc]:

[calc]
         foreach (qw(
                         value_1
                         value_2
                         value_whatever
         )) {
                 $Values->{$_} = '';
         }
         return;
[/calc]

- Ed L.

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