[html-formfu] Suppressing error message output?

[Matthias Dietrich]

Hi,

hm, I see I have forgotten something :).

> Hmm, not easy - I'd normally suggest looking at t/examples/ for custom
> rendering, but the render_field() and render_label() methods require
> TT.
>
> I'd suggest inspecting the field errors to build your error message.
> Something like this (as a very rough example):
>
>    my $error_message = '';
>    for my $field ( @{ $form->get_fields } ) {
>        my @errors = @{ $field->get_errors({ forced => 1 });
>        next if !@errors;
>        $error_message .= sprintf '<p>field %s has errors</p><ul>', (
> $field->label || $field->name );
>        for my $error (@errors) {
>            $error_message .= sprintf '<li>%s</li>', $error->message;
>        }
>        $error_message .= '</ul>';
>    }

I already have the collected error messages, although your way seems  
to be much better and I will adapt that - thanks!

> To get it displayed at the top of the form:
>
>    # use _xml() variant as our message contains xhtml tags
>    $form->form_error_message_xml( $error_message );

Ok, I will try that.  Good point!  As I'm really new to FormFu I would  
have placed the message manually in front of the form :(.

> And clear the errors attached to the fields:
>
>    $form->clear_errors;
>
> And to get the top error message to display now that the form has no  
> errors:
>
>    $form->force_error_message( 1 );

To clear the errors was the only way I found to suppress the error  
message output in front of the labels.  But I guess that also  
suppresses modification of the field classes so that I'm not able to  
mark the labels red by CSS, right?

In my opinion it's a much better user experience to have the occurred  
errors in front of the form instead letting the user search through  
the whole form to find the errors.  But I also want to have an  
indicator near the fields saying that this field needs corrections  
(like a star oder red colored label). Clearing the errors will also  
prevent indicating the fields.

Thanks for helping,
   Matthias

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