Esteemed Monks,

After receiving the use ClassDBI mantra as a seemingly subliminal message from the monastery over some months I have now decided to try it. ne section of my major web-app is no complete and so I have some time to learn something new.

In fact object orientation is something new to this monk! I have written this subclass which I seem to be able to make work after a fashion. 

package User;
use Class::DBI::AsForm;
use Class::DBI::Iterator;
use base 'Class::DBI::mysql';

use strict;
use warnings;

__PACKAGE__->set_db('Main', 'DBI:mysql:appsys', 'root', '');
__PACKAGE__->set_up_table("ap_uprofile");

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Now, in my run_mode I have this code: 
    my $self = shift;
    my $q = $self->query();
    my $obj = User->search_like( 'upfirstname' => 'john%' );
    print STDERR Dumper( $obj );
    my @cols = $obj->columns;
    print STDERR Dumper ( @cols );

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but I continually get told that the method columns cannot be found in Class::DBI::Iterator.

OK, so I am brain dead, but I just cannot seem to work out what is going on! Here is what I am trying to do:

  1. I search the table, and in this case I come up with 4 results. I want to print out a simple form that allows me to select one of the returned entries.
  2. I then want to retrieve the data for the selected record. Can I get this easily in a has (or hashref) that I can pass to HTML::Template to fill out the form fields?
  3. How do I get a count of how many records ( objects? ) are being returned?
I suspect that I am not use'ing the modules correctly. But the doc's are not aimed at neophytes :)

jdtoronto

In reply to Object Oriented Confusion! by jdtoronto

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