[Catalyst] Design of a new form validator

[Sebastian Riedel]

Am 01.12.2005 um 08:13 schrieb Yuval Kogman:

> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 00:15:17 +0100, Sebastian Riedel wrote:
>>      [% form.as_xml %]
>>
>>      [% FOREACH element = form.errors %]
>>          <p>
>>          [% element %]:<br/>
>>          <ul>
>>          [% FOREACH message = form.messages(element) %]
>>              <li>[% element %]:</li>
>>          [% END %]
>>          </ul>
>>          </p>
>>      [% END %]
>
>
> Please also add
>
>
> 	$form->integrated_errors(1);
>
> 	[% form.as_xml %]
>
> should allow you to just style
>
> 	.error {
> 		border: 1px solid red;
> 	}
>
> and get small div or something around the actual form element, with
> the error text just before or after the <input>.
>
> Another thing to add is to please please please allow:
>
> 	1. good default error strings (validators know how to compose
> 	error messages with each other)
>
> 	2. as_xml should be easily broken up so that you can layout your
> 	form more freely:
> 		
> 		iterate elements by order
>
> 		extract elements by name
>
> 		be able to compose groups of elements, and iterate those

All implemented in the new snapshot. :)




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sebastian