On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Roger Horne <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 March 2011 20:52:04 Devin Austin wrote: > > > FormFu is pretty awful in my opinion. Rose::HTML stuff isn't > > much better. > > As an amateur I would be interested to know why. > > When I started learning about Catalyst about a year ago, the > Tutorial at > > http://search.cpan.org/~zarquon/Catalyst-Manual-5.8005/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Tutorial/09_AdvancedCRUD.pod > only described FormFu and so I used it. For the trivial stuff I > deal with it works (most of the time) so I have not tried any of > the others. (If it ain't broke ... :-) > > r. > -- > Roger Horne > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > FormFu doesn't make it easy to do a lot of things. Things like modifying the form after it's been created aren't very easy, and there were quite a few instances I had to add these sort of ludicrous call backs (recommended in the documentation) to get the functionality I wanted (populate a select box from the db, etc.) It's kludgy, and there are just better options out there. -- Devin Austin http://www.codedright.net 9702906669 - Cell
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