On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Alex Aminoff wrote: > However, I cannot seem to find what I want, which is an automatic HTML form > generator (and something that subsequently does updates based on the > CGI->param's passed back) that lets you edit all the rows of a table (or a > slice of a table) at the same time.
Ah. I didn't get that from your first post, sorry. > Maypole, for example, whose > documentation on this seems the clearest, has a "list" method that produces > a list of records, but to edit each record you have to hit an edit button > which takes you to a different screen. This is not what I want. I want all > or some of the fields in the list to be editable widgets. Since there is no > hierarchical structure to $CGI->param's, this means that the module would > have to encode the primary key of the row into the name of the parameter so > you know which row to update, and the update function would have to know how > to decode that. Maypole is not fixed. You could easily add that functionality. It would be quite trivial to adapt the "list" template to render form elements instead of a list. The handler for the submission would do something like: 1. Determine the record ids by examining the parameters returned. 2. Compose a hash for each record using the database column names as keys. 3. Call updatefromcgi on each record, capturing any error messages. 4. Display a results template. > I'm not finding any module that seems to do this. Maypole can definitely do this, as can CGI::Application and Catalyst if you want them to. I think the lack of pre-rolled modules for this is that it's very rare that you would actually want to do it. Having said that, perhaps CGI::Expand might get you some of the way ? http://search.cpan.org/~bowmanbs/CGI-Expand-1.02/Expand.pm > I can sort of understand > why: once you start thinking in terms of Class::DBI, each row is an object, > so it's very natural to want to do things to only one object at a time. > OTOH, if you find HTML::Template's <TMPL_LOOP> concept intuitive, then you > can immediately see why you would want what I want. You're comparing the model with the view (in an MVC framework sense). I'm sure I get what you mean ? Simon. -- "Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' I wasn't previously aware of." _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
