I see now why my question was not answered. It has been asked about
twelve times on these boards and no answer has been found. I'll post
what I have found for the sake of anyone following the same route I did.
FormBuilder with Catalyst will not allow you to reference an individual
field using any of the following lines:
[% FormBuilder.field.<fieldname>.tag %]
[% FormBuilder.field.<fieldname>.field %]
[% FormBuilder.tag('<fieldname>') %]
[% FormBuilder.field('<fieldname>').tag %]
where <fieldname> is the name of the field you specified in the source
file. The following line:
[% FormBuilder.field('<fieldname>') %]
will just give you the name of the field. It basically just returns
whatever you have between the quotes.
You can only call individual fields by referring to the array index,
like this:
[% FormBuilder.field.0.tag %]
where the 0 is the index number of the field you want.
The index number is determined by the order in which you put the fields
into the source file, starting at zero. For example:
name: test
method: post
fields:
# 0
first_name:
label: Client First Name
type: text
required: 1
# 1
last_name:
label: Client Last Name
type: text
required: 1
This source file would put first_name at index 0 and last_name at index
1. The lines with # 0 and # 1 in the example are just comment lines I
use to help me remember what the fields index is.
I hope this helps someone else and saves them the time I spent
discovering this. If I'm wrong and someone has found an answer, please
let me know.
Ascii King wrote:
I can call my fields using this code:
[% FOREACH thing IN FormBuilder.fields %]
[% thing.tag %]
[% END %]
If I have a field named "fullname" I cannot call it individually with either
of the following commands:
[% FormBuilder.field.fullname.field %]
[% FormBuilder.field.fullname.tag %]
I can only call it like this:
[% FormBuilder.field.0.tag %]
I have been over the documentation and I feel I am putting it in the way I
was told. The only thing I can see that might affect it is this bit of code.
my $form = CGI::FormBuilder->new(
fields => \...@fields,
template => {
type => 'TT2',
template => 'form.tmpl',
variable => 'form'
},
);
This code fails for me complaining that the variable 'fields' is not scoped
properly. "Global symbol "@fields" requires explicit package name at "
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