[Catalyst] FormValidator::Simple Sillyness

[Karl.Moens at marsh.com]

* Christopher H. Laco <claco at chrislaco.com> [2006-08-29 21:15]:
> So, imho, FV::S is not very object vs. class friendly. If I
> needed to set two different sets of messages for two seperate
> parts of an app that just happen to have the same action name
> (like save, load, delete, add, or anything else that is just
> descript), I'm screwed.
>
> This is even worse if you're running one process (Cat app) that
> hosts multiple sites within it, and each site might have it's
> own set of messages for form validation (aka, Mango).

I switched from HTML::Widget to CGI::FormBuilder as I found to have not
enough control over the the rendering of my forms in HTML::Widget.

CGI::FormBuiler plays very nice with Catalyst thanks to
Catalyst::Plugin::FormBuilder. If you take care to name your formfields the
same as your database columns, a simple "map" allows easy transfer from or
to the database. Your TT-templates can be as simple as
[%Catalyst.form.render%] if you accept the "standard layout" and all fields
have "class" and "ID" fields to be used with your CSS.

Karl
aka CountZero at Perlmonks


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