It is a good goal. Again though, there are no standard features of
mason that do this.
You could do field highlighting by:
1) When you process the form, any errors get stuffed into another key
(hashref) in the session (ie: form_errors). If any errors are found
redirect back to the form.
2) Get the form errors out of the session and then when generating the
form, you can do something like:
<tr<% exists $form_errors->{FIELD} ? ' class="error"' : '' %>>
....
</tr>
3) Then create a CSS class for errors and have it highlight however you
want.
.error { background: #fff; }
.error input { border: 1px solid #d00; }
There are lots of ways to do it. This is a very basic / simple way.
Hope that helps,
Bradley C Bailey
Anthony Ettinger wrote:
> I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone here:
>
> Convenient messaging for notes, errors, and successes.
>
> ...when errors are found, also highlight the appropriate form fields
> (when applicable).
>
>
>
> On Dec 4, 2007 3:54 PM, Bradley C Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> There are no standard features in mason for this.
>>
>> If you are using sessions it is a fairly simple thing to implement.
>> Whenever you want to store a message, update your session. You can
>> store a hashref with keys for errors, success, warnings, etc... to
>> differentiate different message types. Then write a component that
>> displays them. My display component whacks the data out of the session
>> once it is done. You can put this comp in your autohandler so you
>> don't forget to display them.
>>
>> I have subclassed CGI::Session in the past to add a cleaner interface to
>> doing this and it worked out well.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Bradley C Bailey
>>
>> Anthony Ettinger wrote:
>>
>>> Are there any standard features in mason for messaging in the UI?
>>>
>>> ie: errors, successes, and generic messages.
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