Re^3: Formbuilder: generate id, that includes formname

the form-name is only used for the name of the form, not as an prefix for the name of the fields inside the form

I see, a misunderstanding. Documentation shows

        <tr id="${form}_${field}_row">
            <td id="${form}_${field}_label">Label</td>
            <td id="${form}_${field}_input"><input tag></td>
            <td id="${form}_${field}_error">Error</td><!-- if invalid 
+-->
        </tr>
[download]

And that matches my experience (s/_input/_field/), this code

#!/usr/bin/perl --

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI::FormBuilder;

my $form = CGI::FormBuilder->new( name     => 'acctinfo');
$form->field(name => 'fname', label => 'First Name');
$form->field(name => 'lname', label => 'Last Name');

print $form->render(header => 1);
[download]

produces this html

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en_US" xml:lang="en_U
+S">

<head>
<title> </title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<h3> </h3>

<!-- Generated by CGI::FormBuilder v3.0501 available from www.formbuil
+der.org -->
<form action="-" id="acctinfo" method="get" name="acctinfo">
<div id="acctinfo_state"><input id="_submitted_acctinfo" name="_submit
+ted_acctinfo" type="hidden" value="1" /></div>
<table id="acctinfo_body">
<tr id="acctinfo_fname_row" valign="top">
  <td id="acctinfo_fname_label">First Name</td>
  <td id="acctinfo_fname_field"><input id="fname" name="fname" type="t
+ext" /></td>
</tr>
<tr id="acctinfo_lname_row" valign="top">
  <td id="acctinfo_lname_label">Last Name</td>
  <td id="acctinfo_lname_field"><input id="lname" name="lname" type="t
+ext" /></td>
</tr>
<tr id="acctinfo_submit_row" valign="top">
  <td align="center" colspan="2" id="acctinfo_submit_field"><input id=
+"acctinfo_submit" name="_submit" type="submit" value="Submit" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
[download]

It seems you want

#!/usr/bin/perl --

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI::FormBuilder;

my $form = CGI::FormBuilder->new( name     => 'acctinfo');
$form->field(name => 'acctinfo_fname', label => 'First Name');
$form->field(name => 'acctinfo_lname', label => 'Last Name');

print $form->render(header => 1);
[download]

Comment on Re^3: Formbuilder: generate id, that includes formname Select or Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^4: Formbuilder: generate id, that includes formname by Wolfgang (Novice) on Oct 06, 2009 at 13:31 UTC
You are right, that is want I want. Things are somewhat different though, because since I'm using catalyst I also have the .tt-Files (HTML) and the .fb (form definition) to consider. To make matters worse I'm working in an environment where the package ext (JS-Package) loads the html via ajax. JS inside of the html therefore will not be executed (in a consistent way, considering all browsers). Because I (want to) use the same perl construct in several html-templates the predefined js-functions have to be able to identify the correct formbuilder-element. Eventually I ended up with this solution: CGI::FormBuilder::Source::File lets me define an additional id, if I do so, formbuilder will use this and not create its own. That is true for the form element as well as for the input-elements. Even better, in the html-template I can ask the formbuilder input object for its id. The only minor flaw is, that the id of the form object can not be found this way So I have to enter that id in several files, which kind of bugs me and causes bugs ;-) Guess, I'll have to live with it Thanks anyway	[reply]
Re^5: Formbuilder: generate id, that includes formname by Anonymous Monk on Oct 06, 2009 at 13:47 UTC
Guess, I'll have to live with it Nooooo! :) CGI::FormBuilder hasn't been updated since 02 Mar 2007, I say you take over, or fork the project :)	[reply]