[Catalyst] Handling add/edit screens

[Bill Moseley]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 11:27:01PM -0500, moltar wrote:
> This is a very common scenario. First you have a form to add a record, 
> and then later you want to edit the record. Sometimes the records is 
> *almost* the same, but not quite.
> 
> For example, editing a user profile - users must provide a username when 
> registering, but can't change it on the edit screen. Also while editing 
> user profile, they must provide an old password and a new one twice. But 
> the rest of the form (name, email, address, etc...) is exactly the same.

Mostly my create and update forms are the same.

When they vary a little I put some logic in the template.  But more
often than not when going down that path I end up using two different
templates.  (Yesterday I did this as I was trying to use the same
form template for both "Signup" and "Edit Your Profile" pages.

For common field groups I put them in their own file and include them.
Then using separate forms for different actions doesn't seem so
redundant.


> I am using FormValidator::Simple.

Check out HTML::Rose::Objects before you get too far into your
project.

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org