I've put in the code (in html.pl) to skip over unused fields but it isn't working on my email and url fields. Why not and how do I do this - below is the code I've put in sub html_record for the email field:

Thanks,

You can't say "if Email1 is greater that Email2" - it makes no sense. You need to rethink the method of skipping empty fields.

The best way would be to loop through %rec and use "next" if the $rec value is 0 or empty.

You can simply use:

|;
if ($rec{'Email'}) { print qq|
<TR><TD ALIGN="Right" VALIGN="TOP"><$font_color>Email:</FONT></TD>
<TD> <$font><A HREF="mailto:$rec{'Email'}">$rec{'Email'}</A></Font></TD></TR>
|;
}

And so that you can still define a URL in your .cfg file to default to showing http:// for example:

'URL' => [11,'alpha',30,90,1,'http://','^http://'],

You can use as an example:

if (length($rec{'URL'}) > 7) { print qq| URL: <B><A HREF="$url{'URL'}" target="blank">$rec{'URL'}</A></B><BR> |; }

Hope this helps

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A much more efficient way requiring much less html and perl code would be:

That should be foreach (keys %rec) {

Looks like both more coding and more html ??

Why not just edit your previous post rather than making another with corrections. Also since you didn't bother to provide a solution to begin with, why bother answering now?


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The code I provided above will create the output for the whole of sub record_form whereas yours (which is about the same length) only deals with the email issue.


I'd like to be able to edit posts after 60 minutes but unfortunately I can't - note the posting times of my posts


I provided a suggestion in my original reply but in an attempt to be more helpful I decided to come back to provide the code for my suggestion. Also this is a public forum so I can reply whenever I like.

Now lets get back to the thread topic.