NAME

Catalyst::Model::HTML::FormFu - FormFu In Your Model (Deprecated)

SYNOPSIS

  # Install formfu elements
  # (See perldoc Catalyst::Helper::Model::HTML::FormFu)
  ./script/myapp_create.pl model YourModelName FormFu [dirname]

  # In your app
  MyApp->config(
    'Model::HTML::FormFu' => {
      cache_backend   => 'formfu', # optional
      config_dir      => '/path/to/basedir/', # optional
      contructor_args => { ... },  # optional
      stash_key       => 'form',   # optional
    }
  );

  # in your controller
  sub foo : Local
  {
     my ($self, $c) = @_;
     $c->model('FormFu')->load_form('path/to/file.yml');
  }

DESCRIPTION

  *** WARNING ***
  This module has been deprecated.
  Please consider using Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu instead.
  ***************

Catalyst::Model::HTML::FormFu allows you to use HTML::FormFu from your Catalyst model, fully with caching and support for inserting dynamic values.

STASH KEY

When a form is loaded via load_form(), you can automatically tell Catalyst::Model::HTML::FormFu to populate a stash key, so you can immediately use it in your template.

Just specify the stash_key config parameter:

  MyApp->config(
    'Model::HTML::FormFu' => {
       stash_key => 'form'
    }
  );

In your controller, just load the form:

  sub foo : Local {
    my($self, $c) = @_;
    my $form = $c->model('FormFu')->load_form('path/to/form.yml');
    if ($form->submitted_and_valid) {
       ...
    }
  }

Then you can simply say in your template:

  [% form %]

DYNAMIC VALUES

If you use the following construct anywhere in your config, the values will be replaced by dyamic values:

  - type: text
    value: __dynamic(method_name)__

The value will be replaced by the return value from calling $model->method_name($c)

For example, if you want to pull out values from the database and put them in a select field:

  # config
  - type: select
    options: __dynamic(select_from_db)__

  # MyApp::Model::HTML::FormFu
  sub select_from_db {
    my ($self, $c) = @_;
    my @values = $c->model('DBIC')->resultset('SelectValues')->all;
    # munge @values so that it conforms to HTML::FormFu's spec
    ....

    return \@values;
  }

CONFIG DIR

You can configure which directory the model looks for config files. simply specify the 'config_dir' key in your config

  MyApp->config(
    'Model::HTML::FormFu' => {
      config_dir => '/path/to/basedir'
    }
  )

If unspecified, it will look under $c->path_to('root')

CACHE

FormFu objects will be used many times through the life cycle of your Catalyst application and since forms don't change, caching an already constructed form will make your forms much faster.

Caching is done through Catalyst::Plugin::Cache. Setup one, and Catalyst::Model::HTML::FormFu will use default cache backend. If you create multiple cache backends and want to use a particular one of those, specify it in the config:

  MyApp->config(
    'Model::HTML::FormFu' => {
      cache_backend => 'formfu'
    }
  )
  

METHODS

load_form($config)

Loads HTML::FormFu from config. $config can either be the path to the config file, or a hash that contains the config.

cache($c)

Loads the appropriate cache object. This defaults to the cache object setup by Catalyst::Plugin::Cache, with the name specified in MyApp->config->{Model::HTML::FormFu}->{cache_backend}

ACCEPT_CONTEXT

AUTHOR

2007 Copyright (c) Daisuke Maki daisuke@endeworks.jp

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

cpanm Catalyst::Model::HTML::FormFu

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Catalyst::Model::HTML::FormFu