Jon Warbrick wrote: > I've always admired the form helpers used by Rails (see [1]) - essentially > helpers for use in templates for creating form controls that are linked to > underlying model objects so that they can be pre-populated and so that the > controls can be named to make subsequent update of the objects easy. It > strikes me that something like this could be useful when creating forms > that are more complex then solutions like HTMLWidget can conveniently cope > with. > > Catalyst-Plugin-Params-Nested already provides support for something very > like the Rails naming scheme, but I can't see anything that provides > anything like the helpers themselves. Before I start creating something, > probably as a DBIx::Class component, please can anyone tell me if I'm > re-inventing the wheel? > > Jon. > > [1] > http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#M000389 > > Maybe look at FormBuilder. (?)
Also suggest a situation that is "complex then solutions like HTMLWidget can conveniently cope with" and I'll tell you if it is (or will be - refactor is coming) Ash Berlin _______________________________________________ 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/