[Catalyst] Rails-like form helpers

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

Hi,

Commenting on:
> person, telephone_number and email_address have multiple columns. person
> has_many telephone_numbers, person has_many email_addresses. I want a form
> to manage information about a particular person, including the ability to
> update existing telephone numbers and email addresses, and with buttons to
> delete any particular number and to add new ones.

This is what I am trying to do in Catalyst::Example::Controller::InstantCRUD
- the form is generated from the database schema and then when you do update
the respective tables are updated.  It works - but I am not happy with the
overall architecture and as I've wrote in my previous email I am now
rethinking the whole concept. In the new version the form is generated from
an intermediate config not directly from the db schema.

The whole thing is a app generator (scaffolding) - but my goal is to
Catalyst::Example::Controller::InstantCRUD usable also without the
generator.

--
Zbyszek



On 9/21/06, Jon Warbrick <jw35 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Ash Berlin wrote:
>
> > Maybe look at FormBuilder. (?)
>
> Definitely a possibility, but I haven't got my head around it yet...
>
> > Also suggest a situation that is "complex then solutions like HTMLWidget
> > can conveniently cope with" and I'll tell you if it is (or will be -
> > refactor is coming)
>
> person, telephone_number and email_address have multiple columns. person
> has_many telephone_numbers, person has_many email_addresses. I want a form
> to manage information about a particular person, including the ability to
> update existing telephone numbers and email addresses, and with buttons to
> delete any particular number and to add new ones. I don't think HTMLWidget
> can do that (though I'd be happy to be proved wrong).
>
> There is also the issue that a complex form it may need careful manual
> layout of the various controls to make it usable. As I see it this is
> something for the designer to do, working in the relevant templates,
> whereas with HTMLWidget at least the ordering and grouping, and to some
> extent the layout, is defined in the model class. I accept there is much
> that can be done about this with CSS, but I also suspect that there are
> some things that can't.
>
> Jon.
>
> --
> Jon Warbrick
> Web/News Development, Computing Service, University of Cambridge
>
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