hidden fields in HTML forms

[Gary Herron]

Rick Robino wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Could anyone point me in the right direction of finding a cgi class
> that catches hidden fields sent to it from an HTML form? cgi.py doesn't
> recognize them; HTMLgen does define an input class which includes
> hidden fields which it can create but that won't help much in parsing
> already created form output except for deriving my own class.

Not true.  The cgi module recognizes and makes available all parameters
which come back from the form, and hidden values are sent back from the
form like any other parameter.

If a form has a field like this:
	
	<INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=user VALUE=xxx>	

then when your python script is invoked, you can get at the value like
this:

	query = cgi.parse()
	if query.has_key('user'):
		user = query['user'][0] #First and only element on the list
	else:
		user = None # or whatever ...


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