hello, David, Sounds good. For me, I have done away with html::Formfu, formbuilder and so forth because my needs better met with manual old school html.
Can you give us some links as a reference to the rest of us? thanks K. Akimoto Quoting David Morel <dmore...@gmail.com>: > > Le 6 mars 09 à 17:33, Francesc Romà i Frigolé a écrit : > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:43 AM, <kakim...@tpg.com.au>wrote: > > > > hello there, > > > > I would like to use AJAX in my catalyst app. Any good > > references/tutes > > to recommend? > > > > thanks. > > > > K. akimoto > > > > > > Hello, > > > > Depends on what do you want to do with AJAX. For example, if you > want > > to do forms, I think it is a bit more complicated than suggested > in > > previous replies. > > > > Ideally, for forms, you'd like to have some modules that > magically > > initialize your forms with data from your model, then render a > nice > > form with your favorite JS toolkit, using AJAX for things like > > auto-complete with data from your model, validate the forms both > on > > the client and on the server, and then update your model with the > > user > > submitted data. > > > > So far, I haven't found anything that does this for my tools of > > choice: DBIx::Class + Dojo > > > > There is HTML::FormFu::Dojo which sounds promising but hasn't > been > > released yet. Check it out here: http://code.google.com/p/html- > formfu/ > > Well, I don't know about Dojo, but I had to do this sort of things > last > week (multiple forms on a page, with slide up & down, dynamically > add > forms, update, display validation errors, etc). I started using > Mootools > which I knew a bit, ran in a lot of issues, switched to jQuery which > I > had no clue about and the thing was done in 10 lines of JS and 2 > hours. > > Of course HTML::FormFu powers it (it's a non-Cat app, made with > mason), > but even without Catalyst, the simple FormFu + jQuery combination is > IMHO a killer. And I didn't even use the Forms plugin (which I > should > probably have). I heard jQuery was crappy in some regards, notably > polluting the global namespace, which YUI takes care not doing IIRC, > but > for what I had to do, using it was a real pleasure. It DWIM, easily, > and that's not so common. > > D.Morel > > > > _______________________________________________ > List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/