formhandler and formbuilder have some syntax similarities. shouldnt be hard to move from one to the other. Just in case you are curiousm, here are some examples: FormBuilder: http://www.formbuilder.org/tutor/index.pl?c=1&s=5 FormHandler: http://search.cpan.org/~gshank/HTML-FormHandler-0.32005/lib/HTML/FormHandler/Manual/Catalyst.pod
--Hernan On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 30 November 2010 11:31:56 David Schmidt wrote: > > another great module which from my perception is used the most lately is > > > > HTML::FormHandler > > http://search.cpan.org/~gshank/HTML-FormHandler-0.32005/<http://search.cpan.org/%7Egshank/HTML-FormHandler-0.32005/> > > > > I can recommend *against* HTML-FormHandler. > > For my day job's Perl and Catalyst project, we initially decided to go with > HTML-FormHandler, only to discover it was buggy, quirky and had severe > memory > leaks. We ended up doing many workarounds and recently made a transition > from > it to HTML-FormFu, which while by no means perfect, is much saner. > > My co-worker "nothingmuch" who has done many of the workarounds can provide > further comments on it. Recently I had to over-ride a role in the login > form > (for which we need to use HTML-FormHandler due to CatalystX::SimpleLogin) > that > will accept an empty string as the 'action=""' attribute because it only > placed true values of the attribute there, which ruled out empty strings. > But > I recall many other fun hours debugging HTML-FormHandler. > > Stay away if you can. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > What does "Zionism" mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism > > <rindolf> She's a hot chick. But she smokes. > <go|dfish> She can smoke as long as she's smokin'. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > _______________________________________________ > List: [email protected] > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ >
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