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List:       sitemanager-devel
Subject:    Re: Polls and Smartforms
From:       Shannon Weyrick <weyrick () roadsend ! com>
Date:       2001-10-05 17:58:06
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On Friday 05 October 2001 06:15 am, you wrote:

>
>  Hi.
>
>  I'd make the smartform run and output on the 'leftnav' module as usual.
>
>  To use the form's variables in other modules you just need to add the
> form's inputs added as InVars to those modules. I.e if you have:
> navleft.mod:
> 	$smartform->add('foo', 'Input foo!', 'text', ........ );
>
> then do:
> main.mod:
> 	$this->addInVar('foo', 'Default foo', 'string');
>
> , then use $this->getVar('foo') later in main.mod to access the user's
> input to foo. This is what InVars do :)
>
>  Beware, you'll lose the automatic filtering functionality cos main.mod
> gets those InVars even if their input is 'bad'. Just run your own checks
> if you need to, and you'll be all right I suppose.

This will work, but there shouldn't be a need to post variables from a 
smartform in one module, to another module (in this case, anyway).

In the poll module, when a user submits their entry, the dataVerified() block 
in that module should write the results to a database. When the page reloads, 
a codePlate could determine (from a hidden variable in the first form, 
perhaps) if a poll entry had just been received, and load the viewer module 
instead of the poll module at that point.

Make sense?

Shannon

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