[Catalyst] FormHandler -- pro or con?

[Hernan Lopes]

Of course you can load a fields config from a file, db or wathever

here is a simple form example of formhandler with perl catalyst:

in your User.pm controller:

use HTML::FormHandler;

sub fields {
   return [
       display0 => {
           type => 'Display',
           html => '<h1>Personal data</h1>',
           },
       name => {
           type             => 'Text',
           label            => 'Name',
           required         => 0,
           required_message => 'required',
           css_class        => 'form50',
       },
       submit => {
           type      => 'Submit',
           css_class => 'form100 clear',
           value     => 'submit',
       },
   ];
}


sub myform :Path('/myform') :Args(0) {
   my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
   my $form =
   HTML::FormHandler->new(
   field_list => $self->fields);
  $c->res->body( $form->render );
}

On 12/7/10, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: "Toby Corkindale" <toby at dryft.net>
>
>> On 1 December 2010 02:34, will trillich <will.trillich at serensoft.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Anybody else *dissing* FormHandler? We've started developing based on
>>> FormHandler lately and haven't had troubles... yet?
>>
>> I'm running it, and have been very happy with it.
>> It's nice that you can put all your common form elements into roles
>> and then combine them.
>> I'm familiar with Moose, so HFH's syntax came fairly naturally to me,
>> but I guess it could be confusing to others?
>>
>> Performance is reasonable - and a lot faster compared to FormFu.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Toby
>
>
> Is there a way of making H::FH beeing more elegant?
>
> I mean, is there a way of doing something to not need using Perl code for
> creating the forms, but only using some configuration files like in H::FF's
> case?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Octavian
>
>
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