[html-formfu] Re: Consistent approach to forms for single/multiple items?

[Will Hawes]

On 21/08/2007, Will Hawes <wdhawes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Most forms deal with a single "thing" at once - editing a single database
> row, sending an email message, etc.
>
> But what about forms that deal with multiple "things" at once? As an
> example, a tabular display of products with a text field next to each,
> allowing the user to enter an arbitrary quantity of each product to add t=
o a
> shopping basket and use a single button to submit the quantities for all
> products at once.
>
> Product | Quantity
> -------------------------------
> Foo       |  { text field 1 }
> -------------------------------
> Bar       |  { text field 2 }
> -------------------------------
>
> Would you use the ->render method, meaning form elements have to be
> created for the "Product" column of each row when all it needs to display=
 is
> a simple text value? Or would it be better to use a template to render the
> form, having generated something like this beforehand:
>
> [
>   { product =3D> 'Foo', quantity =3D> \$text_field_1 },
>   { product =3D> 'Bar', quantity =3D> \$text_field_2 },
>   ...
> ]
>
> Either way seems feasible and probably there are other ways I've not
> thought of. In any case it would be nice to generate both "types" of form=
 in
> a single consistent way. How do others do this?
>

*bump*

Anyone? Even if you don't understand the question due to poor explanation on
my part. The above is too common a scenario for no-one on this list to have
implemented something similar.
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