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6 HTML::FormHandler - HTML forms using Moose
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9 version 0.40068
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12 See the manual at HTML::FormHandler::Manual.
13 use HTML::FormHandler; # or a custom form: use MyApp::Form::User;
15 my $form = HTML::FormHandler->new( .... );
16 $form->process( params => $params );
17 my $rendered_form = $form->render;
18 if( $form->validated ) {
19 # perform validated form actions
20 }
21 else {
22 # perform non-validated actions
23 }
24 Or, if you want to use a form 'result' (which contains only the form
26 values and error messages) instead:
27 use MyApp::Form; # or a generic form: use HTML::FormHandler;
29 my $form = MyApp::Form->new( .... );
30 my $result = $form->run( params => $params );
31 if( $result->validated ) {
32 # perform validated form actions
33 }
34 else {
35 # perform non-validated actions
36 $result->render;
37 }
38 An example of a custom form class:
40 package MyApp::Form::User;
42 use HTML::FormHandler::Moose;
44 extends 'HTML::FormHandler';
45 use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;
46 has '+item_class' => ( default => 'User' );
48 has_field 'name' => ( type => 'Text' );
50 has_field 'age' => ( type => 'PosInteger', apply => [ 'MinimumAge' ] );
51 has_field 'birthdate' => ( type => 'DateTime' );
52 has_field 'birthdate.month' => ( type => 'Month' );
53 has_field 'birthdate.day' => ( type => 'MonthDay' );
54 has_field 'birthdate.year' => ( type => 'Year' );
55 has_field 'hobbies' => ( type => 'Multiple' );
56 has_field 'address' => ( type => 'Text' );
57 has_field 'city' => ( type => 'Text' );
58 has_field 'state' => ( type => 'Select' );
59 has_field 'email' => ( type => 'Email' );
60 has '+dependency' => ( default => sub {
62 [ ['address', 'city', 'state'], ]
63 }
64 );
65 subtype 'MinimumAge'
67 => as 'Int'
68 => where { $_ > 13 }
69 => message { "You are not old enough to register" };
70 no HTML::FormHandler::Moose;
72 1;
73 A dynamic form - one that does not use a custom form class - may be
75 created using the 'field_list' attribute to set fields:
76 my $form = HTML::FormHandler->new(
78 name => 'user_form',
79 item => $user,
80 field_list => [
81 'username' => {
82 type => 'Text',
83 apply => [ { check => qr/^[0-9a-z]*\z/,
84 message => 'Contains invalid characters' } ],
85 },
86 'select_bar' => {
87 type => 'Select',
88 options => \@select_options,
89 multiple => 1,
90 size => 4,
91 },
92 ],
93 );
94 FormHandler does not provide a custom controller for Catalyst because
96 it isn't necessary. Interfacing to FormHandler is only a couple of
97 lines of code. See HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Catalyst for more
98 details, or
99 Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial::09_AdvancedCRUD::09_FormHandler.
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102 *** Although documentation in this file provides some overview, it is
103 mainly intended for API documentation. See
104 HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Intro for an introduction, with links to
105 other documentation.
106 HTML::FormHandler maintains a clean separation between form
108 construction and form rendering. It allows you to define your forms and
109 fields in a number of flexible ways. Although it provides renderers for
110 HTML, you can define custom renderers for any kind of presentation.
111 HTML::FormHandler allows you to define form fields and validators. It
113 can be used for both database and non-database forms, and will
114 automatically update or create rows in a database. It can be used to
115 process structured data that doesn't come from an HTML form.
116 One of its goals is to keep the controller/application program
118 interface as simple as possible, and to minimize the duplication of
119 code. In most cases, interfacing your controller to your form is only a
120 few lines of code.
121 With FormHandler you shouldn't have to spend hours trying to figure out
123 how to make a simple HTML change that would take one minute by hand.
124 Because you _can_ do it by hand. Or you can automate HTML generation as
125 much as you want, with template widgets or pure Perl rendering classes,
126 and stay completely in control of what, where, and how much is done
127 automatically. You can define custom renderers and display your
128 rendered forms however you want.
129 You can split the pieces of your forms up into logical parts and
131 compose complete forms from FormHandler classes, roles, fields,
132 collections of validations, transformations and Moose type constraints.
133 You can write custom methods to process forms, add any attribute you
134 like, and use Moose method modifiers. FormHandler forms are Perl
135 classes, so there's a lot of flexibility in what you can do.
136 HTML::FormHandler provides rendering through roles which are applied to
138 form and field classes (although there's no reason you couldn't write a
139 renderer as an external object either). There are currently two
140 flavors: all-in-one solutions like HTML::FormHandler::Render::Simple
141 and HTML::FormHandler::Render::Table that contain methods for rendering
142 field widget classes, and the HTML::FormHandler::Widget roles, which
143 are more atomic roles which are automatically applied to fields and
144 form. See HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Rendering for more details. (And
145 you can easily use hand-built forms - FormHandler doesn't care.)
146 The typical application for FormHandler would be in a Catalyst,
148 DBIx::Class, Template Toolkit web application, but use is not limited
149 to that. FormHandler can be used in any Perl application.
150 More Formhandler documentation and a tutorial can be found in the
152 manual at HTML::FormHandler::Manual.
153
155 Creating a form with 'new'
156 The new constructor takes name/value pairs:
157 MyForm->new(
159 item => $item,
160 );
161 No attributes are required on new. The form's fields will be built from
163 the form definitions. If no initial data object or defaults have been
164 provided, the form will be empty. Most attributes can be set on either
165 'new' or 'process'. The common attributes to be passed in to the
166 constructor for a database form are either item_id and schema or item:
167 item_id - database row primary key
169 item - database row object
170 schema - (for DBIC) the DBIx::Class schema
171 The following are sometimes passed in, but are also often set in the
173 form class:
174 item_class - source name of row
176 dependency - (see dependency)
177 field_list - an array of field definitions
178 init_object - a hashref or object to provide initial values
179 Examples of creating a form object with new:
181 my $form = MyApp::Form::User->new;
183 # database form using a row object
185 my $form = MyApp::Form::Member->new( item => $row );
186 # a dynamic form (no form class has been defined)
188 my $form = HTML::FormHandler::Model::DBIC->new(
189 item_id => $id,
190 item_class => 'User',
191 schema => $schema,
192 field_list => [
193 name => 'Text',
194 active => 'Boolean',
195 submit_btn => 'Submit',
196 ],
197 );
198 See the model class for more information about 'item', 'item_id',
200 'item_class', and 'schema' (for the DBIC model).
201 HTML::FormHandler::Model::DBIC.
202 FormHandler forms are handled in two steps: 1) create with 'new', 2)
204 handle with 'process'. FormHandler doesn't care whether most parameters
205 are set on new or process or update, but a 'field_list' argument must
206 be passed in on 'new' since the fields are built at construction time.
207 If you want to update field attributes on the 'process' call, you can
209 use an 'update_field_list' or 'defaults' hashref attribute , or
210 subclass update_fields in your form. The 'update_field_list' hashref
211 can be used to set any field attribute. The 'defaults' hashref will
212 update only the 'default' attribute in the field. (There are a lot of
213 ways to set defaults. See HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Defaults.)
214 $form->process( defaults => { foo => 'foo_def', bar => 'bar_def' } );
216 $form->process( update_field_list => { foo => { label => 'New Label' } });
217 Field results are built on the 'new' call, but will then be re-built on
219 the process call. If you always use 'process' before rendering the
220 form, accessing fields, etc, you can set the 'no_preload' flag to skip
221 this step.
222 Processing the form
224 process
225 Call the 'process' method on your form to perform validation and
227 update. A database form must have either an item (row object) or a
228 schema, item_id (row primary key), and item_class (usually set in the
229 form). A non-database form requires only parameters.
230 $form->process( item => $book, params => $c->req->parameters );
232 $form->process( item_id => $item_id,
233 schema => $schema, params => $c->req->parameters );
234 $form->process( params => $c->req->parameters );
235 This process method returns the 'validated' flag ("$form->validated").
237 If it is a database form and the form validates, the database row will
238 be updated.
239 After the form has been processed, you can get a parameter hashref
241 suitable for using to fill in the form from "$form->fif". A hash of
242 inflated values (that would be used to update the database for a
243 database form) can be retrieved with "$form->value".
244 If you don't want to update the database on this process call, you can
246 set the 'no_update' flag:
247 $form->process( item => $book, params => $params, no_update => 1 );
249 params
251 Parameters are passed in when you call 'process'. HFH gets data to
253 validate and store in the database from the params hash. If the params
254 hash is empty, no validation is done, so it is not necessary to check
255 for POST before calling "$form->process". (Although see the 'posted'
256 option for complications.)
257 Params can either be in the form of CGI/HTTP style params:
259 {
261 user_name => "Joe Smith",
262 occupation => "Programmer",
263 'addresses.0.street' => "999 Main Street",
264 'addresses.0.city' => "Podunk",
265 'addresses.0.country' => "UT",
266 'addresses.0.address_id' => "1",
267 'addresses.1.street' => "333 Valencia Street",
268 'addresses.1.city' => "San Francisco",
269 'addresses.1.country' => "UT",
270 'addresses.1.address_id' => "2",
271 }
272 or as structured data in the form of hashes and lists:
274 {
276 addresses => [
277 {
278 city => 'Middle City',
279 country => 'GK',
280 address_id => 1,
281 street => '101 Main St',
282 },
283 {
284 city => 'DownTown',
285 country => 'UT',
286 address_id => 2,
287 street => '99 Elm St',
288 },
289 ],
290 'occupation' => 'management',
291 'user_name' => 'jdoe',
292 }
293 CGI style parameters will be converted to hashes and lists for HFH to
295 operate on.
296 posted
298 Note that FormHandler by default uses empty params as a signal that the
300 form has not actually been posted, and so will not attempt to validate
301 a form with empty params. Most of the time this works OK, but if you
302 have a small form with only the controls that do not return a post
303 parameter if unselected (checkboxes and select lists), then the form
304 will not be validated if everything is unselected. For this case you
305 can either add a hidden field as an 'indicator', or use the 'posted'
306 flag:
307 $form->process( posted => ($c->req->method eq 'POST'), params => ... );
309 The 'posted' flag also works to prevent validation from being performed
311 if there are extra params in the params hash and it is not a 'POST'
312 request.
313 Getting data out
315 fif (fill in form)
316 If you don't use FormHandler rendering and want to fill your form
318 values in using some other method (such as with HTML::FillInForm or
319 using a template) this returns a hash of values that are equivalent to
320 params which you may use to fill in your form.
321 The fif value for a 'title' field in a TT form:
323 [% form.fif.title %]
325 Or you can use the 'fif' method on individual fields:
327 [% form.field('title').fif %]
329 If you use FormHandler to render your forms or field you probably won't
331 use these methods.
332 value
334 Returns a hashref of all field values. Useful for non-database forms,
336 or if you want to update the database yourself. The 'fif' method
337 returns a hashref with the field names for the keys and the field's
338 'fif' for the values; 'value' returns a hashref with the field
339 accessors for the keys, and the field's 'value' (possibly inflated) for
340 the values.
341 Forms containing arrays to be processed with
343 HTML::FormHandler::Field::Repeatable will have parameters with dots and
344 numbers, like 'addresses.0.city', while the values hash will transform
345 the fields with numbers to arrays.
346 Accessing and setting up fields
348 Fields are declared with a number of attributes which are defined in
349 HTML::FormHandler::Field. If you want additional attributes you can
350 define your own field classes (or apply a role to a field class - see
351 HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Cookbook). The field 'type' (used in field
352 definitions) is the short class name of the field class, used when
353 searching the 'field_name_space' for the field class.
354 has_field
356 The most common way of declaring fields is the 'has_field' syntax.
358 Using the 'has_field' syntax sugar requires " use
359 HTML::FormHandler::Moose; " or " use HTML::FormHandler::Moose::Role; "
360 in a role. See HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Intro
361 use HTML::FormHandler::Moose;
363 has_field 'field_name' => ( type => 'FieldClass', .... );
364 field_list
366 A 'field_list' is an array of field definitions which can be used as an
368 alternative to 'has_field' in small, dynamic forms to create fields.
369 field_list => [
371 field_one => {
372 type => 'Text',
373 required => 1
374 },
375 field_two => 'Text,
376 ]
377 The field_list array takes elements which are either a field_name key
379 pointing to a 'type' string or a field_name key pointing to a hashref
380 of field attributes. You can also provide an array of hashref elements
381 with the name as an additional attribute. The field list can be set
382 inside a form class, when you want to add fields to the form depending
383 on some other state, although you can also create all the fields and
384 set some of them inactive.
385 sub field_list {
387 my $self = shift;
388 my $fields = $self->schema->resultset('SomeTable')->
389 search({user_id => $self->user_id, .... });
390 my @field_list;
391 while ( my $field = $fields->next )
392 {
393 < create field list >
394 }
395 return \@field_list;
396 }
397 update_field_list
399 Used to dynamically set particular field attributes on the 'process'
401 (or 'run') call. (Will not create fields.)
402 $form->process( update_field_list => {
404 foo_date => { format => '%m/%e/%Y', date_start => '10-01-01' } },
405 params => $params );
406 The 'update_field_list' is processed by the 'update_fields' form
408 method, which can also be used in a form to do specific field updates:
409 sub update_fields {
411 my $self = shift;
412 $self->field('foo')->temp( 'foo_temp' );
413 $self->field('bar')->default( 'foo_value' );
414 $self->next::method();
415 }
416 (Note that you although you can set a field's 'default', you can't set
418 a field's 'value' directly here, since it will be overwritten by the
419 validation process. Set the value in a field validation method.)
420 update_subfields
422 Yet another way to provide settings for the field, except this one is
424 intended for use in roles and compound fields, and is only executed
425 when the form is initially built. It takes the same field name keys as
426 'update_field_list', plus 'all', 'by_flag', and 'by_type'.
427 sub build_update_subfields {{
429 all => { tags => { wrapper_tag => 'p' } },
430 foo => { element_class => 'blue' },
431 }}
432 The 'all' hash key will apply updates to all fields. (Conflicting
434 attributes in a field definition take precedence.)
435 The 'by_flag' hash key will apply updates to fields with a particular
437 flag. The currently supported subkeys are 'compound', 'contains', and
438 'repeatable'. (For repeatable instances, in addition to 'contains' you
439 can also use the 'repeatable' key and the 'init_contains' attribute.)
440 This is useful for turning on the rendering wrappers for compounds and
441 repeatables, which are off by default. (The repeatable instances are
442 wrapped by default.)
443 sub build_update_subfields {{
445 by_flag => { compound => { do_wrapper => 1 } },
446 by_type => { Select => { element_class => ['sel_elem'] } },
447 }}
448 The 'by_type' hash key will provide values to all fields of a
450 particular type.
451 defaults
453 This is a more specialized version of the 'update_field_list'. It can
455 be used to provide 'default' settings for fields, in a shorthand way
456 (you don't have to say 'default' for every field).
457 $form->process( defaults => { foo => 'this_foo', bar => 'this_bar' }, ... );
459 active/inactive
461 A field can be marked 'inactive' and set to active at new or process
463 time by specifying the field name in the 'active' array:
464 has_field 'foo' => ( type => 'Text', inactive => 1 );
466 ...
467 my $form = MyApp::Form->new( active => ['foo'] );
468 ...
469 $form->process( active => ['foo'] );
470 Or a field can be a normal active field and set to inactive at new or
472 process time:
473 has_field 'bar';
475 ...
476 my $form = MyApp::Form->new( inactive => ['foo'] );
477 ...
478 $form->process( inactive => ['foo'] );
479 Fields specified as active/inactive on new will have the form's
481 inactive/active arrayref cleared and the field's inactive flag set
482 appropriately, so that the state will be effective for the life of the
483 form object. Fields specified as active/inactive on 'process' will have
484 the field's '_active' flag set for the life of the request (the _active
485 flag will be cleared when the form is cleared).
486 The 'sorted_fields' method returns only active fields, sorted according
488 to the 'order' attribute. The 'fields' method returns all fields.
489 foreach my $field ( $self->sorted_fields ) { ... }
491 You can test whether a field is active by using the field 'is_active'
493 and 'is_inactive' methods.
494 field_name_space
496 Use to look for field during form construction. If a field is not found
498 with the field_name_space (or HTML::FormHandler/HTML::FormHandlerX),
499 the 'type' must start with a '+' and be the complete package name.
500 fields
502 The array of fields, objects of HTML::FormHandler::Field or its
504 subclasses. A compound field will itself have an array of fields, so
505 this is a tree structure.
506 sorted_fields
508 Returns those fields from the fields array which are currently active.
510 This is the method that returns the fields that are looped through when
511 rendering.
512 field($name), subfield($name)
514 'field' is the method that is usually called to access a field:
516 my $title = $form->field('title')->value;
518 [% f = form.field('title') %]
519 my $city = $form->field('addresses.0.city')->value;
521 Pass a second true value to die on errors.
523 Since fields are searched for using the form as a base, if you want to
525 find a sub field in a compound field method, the 'subfield' method may
526 be more useful, since you can search starting at the current field. The
527 'chained' method also works:
528 -- in a compound field --
530 $self->field('media.caption'); # fails
531 $self->field('media')->field('caption'); # works
532 $self->subfield('media.caption'); # works
533 Constraints and validation
535 Most validation is performed on a per-field basis, and there are a
536 number of different places in which validation can be performed.
537 See also HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Validation.
539 Form class validation for individual fields
541 You can define a method in your form class to perform validation on a
543 field. This method is the equivalent of the field class validate
544 method except it is in the form class, so you might use this validation
545 method if you don't want to create a field subclass.
546 It has access to the form ($self) and the field. This method is called
548 after the field class 'validate' method, and is not called if the value
549 for the field is empty ('', undef). (If you want an error message when
550 the field is empty, use the 'required' flag and message or the form
551 'validate' method.) The name of this method can be set with
552 'set_validate' on the field. The default is 'validate_' plus the field
553 name:
554 sub validate_testfield { my ( $self, $field ) = @_; ... }
556 If the field name has dots they should be replaced with underscores.
558 Note that you can also provide a coderef which will be a method on the
560 field:
561 has_field 'foo' => ( validate_method => \&validate_foo );
563 validate
565 This is a form method that is useful for cross checking values after
567 they have been saved as their final validated value, and for performing
568 more complex dependency validation. It is called after all other field
569 validation is done, and whether or not validation has succeeded, so it
570 has access to the post-validation values of all the fields.
571 This is the best place to do validation checks that depend on the
573 values of more than one field.
574 Accessing errors
576 Also see HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Errors.
577 Set an error in a field with "$field->add_error('some error string');".
579 Set a form error not tied to a specific field with
580 "$self->add_form_error('another error string');". The 'add_error' and
581 'add_form_error' methods call localization. If you want to skip
582 localization for a particular error, you can use 'push_errors' or
583 'push_form_errors' instead.
584 has_errors - returns true or false
586 error_fields - returns list of fields with errors
587 errors - returns array of error messages for the entire form
588 num_errors - number of errors in form
589 Each field has an array of error messages. (errors, has_errors,
591 num_errors, clear_errors)
592 $form->field('title')->errors;
594 Compound fields also have an array of error_fields.
596 Clear form state
598 The clear method is called at the beginning of 'process' if the form
599 object is reused, such as when it is persistent in a Moose attribute,
600 or in tests. If you add other attributes to your form that are set on
601 each request, you may need to clear those yourself.
602 If you do not call the form's 'process' method on a persistent form,
604 such as in a REST controller's non-POST method, or if you only call
605 process when the form is posted, you will also need to call
606 "$form->clear".
607 The 'run' method which returns a result object always performs 'clear',
609 to keep the form object clean.
610 Miscellaneous attributes
612 name
613 The form's name. Useful for multiple forms. Used for the form element
615 'id'. When 'html_prefix' is set it is used to construct the field 'id'
616 and 'name'. The default is "form" + a one to three digit random
617 number. Because the HTML standards have flip-flopped on whether the
618 HTML form element can contain a 'name' attribute, please set a name
619 attribute using 'form_element_attr'.
620 init_object
622 An 'init_object' may be used instead of the 'item' to pre-populate the
624 values in the form. This can be useful when populating a form from
625 default values stored in a similar but different object than the one
626 the form is creating. The 'init_object' should be either a hash or the
627 same type of object that the model uses (a DBIx::Class row for the DBIC
628 model). It can be set in a variety of ways:
629 my $form = MyApp::Form->new( init_object => { .... } );
631 $form->process( init_object => {...}, ... );
632 has '+init_object' => ( default => sub { { .... } } );
633 sub init_object { my $self = shift; .... }
634 The method version is useful if the organization of data in your form
636 does not map to an existing or database object in an automatic way, and
637 you need to create a different type of object for initialization. (You
638 might also want to do 'update_model' yourself.)
639 Also see the 'use_init_obj_over_item' and the
641 'use_init_obj_when_no_accessor_in_item' flags, if you want to provide
642 both an item and an init_object, and use the values from the
643 init_object.
644 The 'use_init_obj_when_no_accessor_in_item' flag is particularly useful
646 when some of the fields in your form come from the database and some
647 are process or environment type flags that are not in the database. You
648 can provide defaults from both a database row and an 'init_object.
649 ctx
651 Place to store application context for your use in your form's methods.
653 language_handle
655 See 'language_handle' and '_build_language_handle' in
657 HTML::FormHandler::TraitFor::I18N.
658 dependency
660 Arrayref of arrayrefs of fields. If one of a group of fields has a
662 value, then all of the group are set to 'required'.
663 has '+dependency' => ( default => sub { [
665 ['street', 'city', 'state', 'zip' ],] }
666 );
667 Flags
669 validated, is_valid
670 Flag that indicates if form has been validated. You might want to use
672 this flag if you're doing something in between process and returning,
673 such as setting a stash key. ('is_valid' is a synonym for this flag)
674 $form->process( ... );
676 $c->stash->{...} = ...;
677 return unless $form->validated;
678 ran_validation
680 Flag to indicate that validation has been run. This flag will be false
682 when the form is initially loaded and displayed, since validation is
683 not run until FormHandler has params to validate.
684 verbose, dump, peek
686 Flag to dump diagnostic information. See 'dump_fields' and
688 'dump_validated'. 'Peek' can be useful in diagnosing bugs. It will
689 dump a brief listing of the fields and results.
690 $form->process( ... );
692 $form->peek;
693 html_prefix
695 Flag to indicate that the form name is used as a prefix for fields in
697 an HTML form. Useful for multiple forms on the same HTML page. The
698 prefix is stripped off of the fields before creating the internal field
699 name, and added back in when returning a parameter hash from the 'fif'
700 method. For example, the field name in the HTML form could be
701 "book.borrower", and the field name in the FormHandler form (and the
702 database column) would be just "borrower".
703 has '+name' => ( default => 'book' );
705 has '+html_prefix' => ( default => 1 );
706 Also see the Field attribute "html_name", a convenience function which
708 will return the form name + "." + field full_name
709 is_html5
711 Flag to indicate the fields will render using specialized attributes
713 for html5. Set to 0 by default.
714 use_defaults_over_obj
716 The 'normal' precedence is that if there is an accessor in the
718 item/init_object that value is used and not the 'default'. This flag
719 makes the defaults of higher precedence. Mainly useful if providing an
720 empty row on create.
721 use_init_obj_over_item
723 If you are providing both an item and an init_object, and want the
725 init_object to be used for defaults instead of the item.
726 For use in HTML
728 form_element_attr - hashref for setting arbitrary HTML attributes
729 set in form with: sub build_form_element_attr {...}
730 form_element_class - arrayref for setting form tag class
731 form_wrapper_attr - hashref for form wrapper element attributes
732 set in form with: sub build_form_wrapper_attr {...}
733 form_wrapper_class - arrayref for setting wrapper class
734 do_form_wrapper - flag to wrap the form
735 http_method - For storing 'post' or 'get'
736 action - Store the form 'action' on submission. No default value.
737 uuid - generates a string containing an HTML field with UUID
738 form_tags - hashref of tags for use in rendering code
739 widget_tags - rendering tags to be transferred to fields
740 Discouraged (use form_element_attr instead):
742 style - adds a 'style' attribute to the form tag
744 enctype - Request enctype
745 Note that the form tag contains an 'id' attribute which is set to the
747 form name. The standards have been flip-flopping over whether a 'name'
748 attribute is valid. It can be set with 'form_element_attr'.
749 The rendering of the HTML attributes is done using the 'process_attrs'
751 function and the 'element_attributes' or 'wrapper_attributes' method,
752 which adds other attributes in for backward compatibility, and calls
753 the 'html_attributes' hook.
754 For HTML attributes, there is a form method hook, 'html_attributes',
756 which can be used to customize/modify/localize form & field HTML
757 attributes. Types: element, wrapper, label, form_element,
758 form_wrapper, checkbox_label
759 sub html_attributes {
761 my ( $self, $obj, $type, $attrs, $result ) = @_;
762 # obj is either form or field
764 $attr->{class} = 'label' if $type eq 'label';
765 $attr->{placeholder} = $self->_localize($attr->{placeholder})
766 if exists $attr->{placeholder};
767 return $attr;
768 }
769 Also see the documentation in HTML::FormHandler::Field and in
771 HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Rendering.
772
774 IRC:
775 Join #formhandler on irc.perl.org
777 Mailing list:
779 http://groups.google.com/group/formhandler
781 Code repository:
783 http://github.com/gshank/html-formhandler/tree/master
785 Bug tracker:
787 https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=HTML-FormHandler
789
791 HTML::FormHandler::Manual
792 HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Tutorial
794 HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Intro
796 HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Templates
798 HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Cookbook
800 HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Rendering
802 HTML::FormHandler::Manual::Reference
804 HTML::FormHandler::Field
806 HTML::FormHandler::Model::DBIC
808 HTML::FormHandler::Render::Simple
810 HTML::FormHandler::Render::Table
812 HTML::FormHandler::Moose
814
816 gshank: Gerda Shank <gshank@cpan.org>
817 zby: Zbigniew Lukasiak <zby@cpan.org>
819 t0m: Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>
821 augensalat: Bernhard Graf <augensalat@gmail.com>
823 cubuanic: Oleg Kostyuk <cub.uanic@gmail.com>
825 rafl: Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
827 mazpe: Lester Ariel Mesa
829 dew: Dan Thomas
831 koki: Klaus Ita
833 jnapiorkowski: John Napiorkowski
835 lestrrat: Daisuke Maki
837 hobbs: Andrew Rodland
839 Andy Clayton
841 boghead: Bryan Beeley
843 Csaba Hetenyi
845 Eisuke Oishi
847 Lian Wan Situ
849 Murray
851 Nick Logan
853 Vladimir Timofeev
855 diegok: Diego Kuperman
857 ijw: Ian Wells
859 amiri: Amiri Barksdale
861 ozum: Ozum Eldogan
863 lukast: Lukas Thiemeier
865 Initially based on the source code of Form::Processor by Bill Moseley
867
869 FormHandler Contributors - see HTML::FormHandler
870
872 This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Gerda Shank.
873 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
875 the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
876perl v5.36.0 2022-07-22 HTML::FormHandler(3)