[ic] Clearing Form Values from Session

[Ed LaFrance]

At 03:29 PM 12/05/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Quoting Dorothy Puma (dorothy@digilink.net):
> > 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.
> >
>
>[calc]
>         $Values = {};
>[/calc]
>

This is effective, but be careful. It will clear *all* values, including 
some you may want to retain.  Explicitly specifying the value names is 
messier, but more controlled.

- Ed L.



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