All- I just now uploaded Catalyst::Plugin::FormBuilder to CPAN, which adds support for FormBuilder in Catalyst. It's also available here:
http://www.formbuilder.org/download/Catalyst-Plugin-FormBuilder-1.02.tar.gz Usage is similar to XMLRPC: for those controller methods that contain forms, simply associate a ":Form" attribute with them: package MyApp::Controller::Books; sub edit : Form { # this automatically loads root/forms/books/edit.fb # and creates a $c->form object for you $c->form->method('post'); $c->form->messages('messages.fr'); # French errors } The page rendering is handled for you by Catalyst using its Template Toolkit hooks. To get a standard form, just call form.render in your template: <!-- root/src/books/edit.tt --> [% form.render %] Or, if you want finer control over the placement of your fields, you can directly render your form using FormBuilder methods: <head>[% form.jshead %]</head> [% form.start %] <table> [% FOREACH field IN form.fields %] <tr valign="top"> <td> [% field.required ? "<b>$field.label</b>" : field.label %] </td> <td> [% IF field.invalid %] Missing or invalid entry, please try again. [% END %] [% field.tag %] </td> </tr> [% END %] <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"> [% form.submit %] [% form.reset %] </td> </tr> </table> [% form.statetags %] [% form.end %] Thanks for Catalyst, it's great! And it was extremely easy to get FormBuilder plugged in. I'm a convert. (If anyone has suggestions on the plugin, please let me know). Cheers, Nate Wiger FormBuilder Author www.formbuilder.org _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
