> At 02:26 PM 6/7/2001 +1000, Steve Smith wrote:
> > > HTML::Embperl
> >
> >For me, this has one major win over the other toolkits: auto form
> >population from a hash. The online mortgage application system I
> >wrote has about 1,800 form fields, which have to be populated with
> >data from a database. By making the form fields match DB column
> >names, I can reduce the code to do this to:
> >
> > my $data = $dbh->fetchrow_hashref($query);
> > %fdat = (%fdat, %$data);
> >
> >Embperl then parses the form and populates it with the matching
> >name=>value pairs in %fdat, including select options. Beautiful!
>
> Not that it's a reality now, but this is one of the things that the Perl
> Widget Library project on source forge is hoping to accomplish for
template
> languages. It's a cross template way of organizing form information and
map
> it to db fields.
>
> The reality is that there are many fields that cannot map easily 1-1 to a
> database as you say. eg a date in a database is usually a date field. But
> in a form, it might be a combination of 3 form fields (dropdown for month,
> year and day separately).
>
Such things could be solved by using DBIx::Recordset for database access and
define some filters, which are able to transform the content of a field
to/from format you need it.
Gerald
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