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

[Will Hawes]

On 03/10/2007, Mario Minati <mario.minati at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 03 October 2007 17:46:46 Will Hawes wrote:
> > 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
> > > to 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.
>
> There is a SimpleTable element that helps creating tables.


Thanks, I'd not seen that before, but it does look as though it could be
useful.

If you are looking for real multiple elments support e.g. if you want to
> allow
> to input an unknown number of addresses in the same form, this something
> we
> are still working on.


Is this in SVN already? I'd be interested to look at the source.
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