[html-formfu] Displaying 2 forms in the same page
Octavian Rasnita
orasnita at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 15:00:50 BST 2008
Yes, something like that. And I think it could be also helpful if you could
right about the recommended way to access the login_form's variables in the
action used by that form (for example "/login").
Define $login_form = $self->form there also?
Or just get the variables using $c->req->param(...)?
Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Marienborg" <omega at palle.net>
To: "HTML Form Creation,Rendering and Validation Framework"
<html-formfu at lists.scsys.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [html-formfu] Displaying 2 forms in the same page
> =head2 Multiple forms using Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu
>
> Sometimes you need to display multiple forms on a single page. If you
> try to use FormConfig on several actions in a chain, or similar, they
> all use $c->stash->{form} to store the form, hence you only get the last
> form.
>
> One way to work around such problems is to do a little of the work
> yourself:
>
> In this example we have a login_form that we want on every page
> root/forms/login.yml:
> ---
> elements:
> -
> type: Text
> name: username
> ...
>
> We load this in the top-most auto action:
>
> package MyApp::Controller::Root;
>
> use parent 'Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu';
>
> sub auto : Private {
> my ($self, $c) = @_;
>
> # We want to utilize alot of the magic that the controller
> # gives us, so therefore we call $self->form like this
>
> my $login_form = $self->form;
> $login_form->load_config('forms/login.yml');
>
> # Notice how we put it into another stash var, not 'form'
> $c->stash->{login_form} = $login_form;
> }
>
>
> Any other page that wants to load another form, can now do so freely:
>
> package MyApp::Controller::Foo;
>
> sub edit : Local FormConfig {
>
> }
>
> Finaly, we need to show both forms:
>
> root/foo/edit.tt
> [% login_form %]
> <h2>edit</h2>
> [% form %]
>
>
>
>
> Something like that?
>
> If no-one objects, I'll commit it tomorrow
>
>
> - andreas
>
> On Oct 13, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Oleg Kostyuk wrote:
>
>> Andreas, may be you lodged this as doc patch for
>> HTML::FormFu::Manual::Cookbook and send it to Carl ?
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely yours,
>> Oleg Kostyuk (CUB-UANIC)
>>
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