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Re: [FormBuilder] validate + commas in FB source files

Alexandre Jousset — 2007-03-14T08:37:16

Just a note : Alexandre Jousset wrote: This part of the patch is just for Emacs to be happy with syntax highlighting... Not really necessary... Regards,

Re: [FormBuilder] validate + commas in FB source files

Alexandre Jousset — 2007-03-14T08:31:38

Hello Nate, Nate Wiger wrote: Ok, here it is, in attachment. With it, I can use this kind of YAML config file (I use Catalyst): File '.../MyApp/root/forms/user/create.fb': ----------------------------------------------------------- name: user_create method: post fields: login: label: Login type: text size: 40 validate: /^.{4\,40}$/, /^\w*$/ required: 1 message: Between 4 and 40 characters, Only alphanumeric characters disp_name: label: Real name (public) type: text size: 50 validate: /^.{0\,50}$/, LNAME message: Max 50 characters, Forbidden character(s) mail: label: Real Email type: text size: 80 validate: EMAIL required: 1 message: Invalid Email disp_mail: label: Displayed Email (public) type: text size: 80 validate: /^.{0\,80}$/ message: Max 80 characters home_page: label: URL type: text size: 100 validate: /^.{0\,100}$/ message: Invalid URL pass: label: Password type: password size: 40 validate: /^.{4\,40}$/ required: 1 message: Between 4 and 40 characters pass2: label: Password confirmation type: password size: 40 validate: /^.{4\,40}$/ required: 1 message: Between 4 and 40 characters submit: Create reset: Reset ----------------------------------------------------------- Notice in "validate:" items the values separated by a comma. Also, the corresponding "messages:" are also separated by a comma. Also notice the '\,' in the regexps, for which in the patch I remove the leading '\'. I won't repeat the template I use to render this form as I provided it in my previous message. The only thing to know is that a new attribute, $fb->{array} indicates an array instead of a single value. I'm looking for other predefined regexps, like URLs. I can build one myself but if I find one on the web / MLs, I'll also patch again the file Field.pm to include it. If you (or anyone) find a good one, please tell us. I'm also looking for a good way to translate the 'submit' and 'reset' buttons. Any clue ? Tell me if you need anything else. Unfortunately I've never built any Perl test suite, so I can't, for the moment, give you any. Sorry for this :-( Regards,

Re: [FormBuilder] validate + commas in FB source files

Nate Wiger — 2007-03-13T15:21:56

Looks like a good addition. Please do. Provide a diff -u and also a couple tests, and I'll apply it to the tree. Thanks, Nate _______________________________________________ FBusers mailing list FBusers< at >formbuilder.org http://www.formbuilder.org/mailman/listinfo/fbusers

Re: [FormBuilder] validate + commas in FB source files

Alexandre Jousset — 2007-03-13T11:33:13

Hello list, kevin montuori wrote: Same for me. I'm new to it and find it very useful. I've had the same problem. > [...] I changed your patch a bit more : ------------------------------------------------------- # split commas my $split_regex; if (lc $term eq 'validate') { $split_regex = qr/\s*(?val = split $split_regex, $line; # m=Male, f=Female -> [m,Male], [f,Female] + '\' remove before ',' for (< at >val) { s/\\,/,/g; $_ = [ split /\s*=\s*/, $_, 2 ] if /=/; } -------------------------------------------------------- I also had need for a more convenient (perl) validate function. So in CGI::FormBuilder::Field, in function validate() I added : Just after '# Check our hash to see if it's a special pattern' I changed the line to : ----------------------------------------------------------------------- if (ref $pattern eq 'ARRAY') { $self->{array} = 1; $VALIDATE{$_} && (($_) = autodata($VALIDATE{$_})) for < at >{$pattern}; } else { $self->{array} = 0; ($pattern) = autodata($VALIDATE{$pattern}) if $VALIDATE{$pattern}; } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Next, after '} elsif (ref $pattern eq 'ARRAY') {' I changed the block to : ----------------------------------------------------------------------- my $cnt = 0; foreach my $elem (< at >{$pattern}) { if ($elem =~ m,^m(\S)(.*)\1$, || $elem =~ m,^(/)(.*)\1$,) { # it be a regexp, handle / escaping (my $tpat = $2) =~ s#\\/#/#g; $tpat =~ s#/#\\/#g; debug 2, "$field: does '$value' =~ /$tpat/ ?"; unless ($value =~ /$tpat/) { $thisfail = ++$bad; push < at >failed, $cnt; } } else { # must be w/i this set of values debug 2, "$field: is '$value' eq $elem ?"; unless ($value eq $elem) { $thisfail = ++$bad; push < at >failed, $cnt; } } $cnt++; } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, after '# If not $atleastone and they asked for validation, then we # know that we have an error since this means no values' I changed the block to : ----------------------------------------------------------------------- if ($bad || (! $atleastone && $self->required)) { debug 1, "$field: validation FAILED"; $self->{invalid} = $bad || 1; $self->{failed} = \< at >failed; $self->{missing} = $atleastone; return; } else { debug 1, "$field: validation passed"; delete $self->{invalid}; # in case of previous run delete $self->{failed}; delete $self->{missing}; # ditto return 1; } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The purpose of all of this is to have a good interpretation of the commas in regexps, and also to provide the number of the message corresponding to the pattern that failed. In my TT template I have this : ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [% FOREACH field IN formbuilder.fields %] [% l(field.label) %] [% IF field.required %] * [% END %] [% IF field.invalid %] [% IF field.array %] [% FOREACH msgnb IN field.failed %]
[% l(field.message.$msgnb) %] [% END %] [% ELSE %] [% l(field.message) %] [% END %] [% END %]
[% field.field %]

[% END %] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- where l() is a macro for localization. I hope not to be too confusing, I can provide a real patch if needed (I am lazy today ;-) ) HTH, Regards,

[FormBuilder] file/directory chooser for the server side?

Sascha Brechenmacher — 2007-03-08T09:24:12

Hello, I use Formbuilder to create usermin modules for my company. Now I need a file/directory chooser but for the remote files. With "$form->field(name => 'inputFile', label => 'Input file', type => file);" I get as expected only a local file chooser. In the user-/webmin framework I could use "&file_chooser_button" which gives me a file/directory chooser on the the server side. Is it possible to use "&file_chooser_button" inside formbuilder or is there an other way to get an file/directory chooser dialog for the server side inside formbuilder? regards, Sascha _______________________________________________ FBusers mailing list FBusers< at >formbuilder.org http://www.formbuilder.org/mailman/listinfo/fbusers

Re: [FormBuilder] How to validate input not in list?

Kevin Jordan — 2007-03-06T18:40:04

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Re: [FormBuilder] How to validate input not in list?

Nate Wiger — 2007-03-06T18:21:10

1) Add a unique DB constraint so bad data can't possibly get in 2) Write a \&check_username_is_unique callback function, and pass it to validate for 'username' -Nate _______________________________________________ FBusers mailing list FBusers< at >formbuilder.org http://www.formbuilder.org/mailman/listinfo/fbusers

[FormBuilder] How to validate input not in list?

Kevin Jordan — 2007-03-06T18:08:29

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Re: [FormBuilder] requiring any of several fields

Nate Wiger — 2007-03-05T03:02:48

You have to use the D::FV object for everything, but FB does bridge the gap by automatically detecting invalid fields/etc. So you can set messages, but not validations thru field() -Nate _______________________________________________ FBusers mailing list FBusers< at >formbuilder.org http://www.formbuilder.org/mailman/listinfo/fbusers

Re: [FormBuilder] requiring any of several fields

Ryan Tate — 2007-03-04T21:07:43

No, I had not! Thanks for the pointer. I see now this case (requiring any one of several fields) is cited specifically in the docs, sorry for missing it. So if I pass a D::FV obj as the validate argument to CGI::FormBuilder->new, will the additional validation I set up for various fields still work? ie can I still do $form->field(name=>'email',required=>1,validate=>'EMAIL'); ? Or do I have to do everything through the D::FV object? Looks nice. _______________________________________________ FBusers mailing list FBusers< at >formbuilder.org http://www.formbuilder.org/mailman/listinfo/fbusers

Re: [FormBuilder] Newbie, question about formbuilder

Daniel Vela — 2007-03-04T08:38:50

Dan, Thanks for your response. You are right that the table would be large (I expect somewhere in the range of about 130 rows), but I want to be able to make several changes at once, without having to pop-up form each time, I want to make several changes at once and then submit. formbuilder is great at creating a form, but what I would like it to do is go thru and create several forms on a page. Then I can have my users change several sections at once and then make one request. Thanks Again, Daniel Vela _______________________________________________ FBusers mailing list FBusers< at >formbuilder.org http://www.formbuilder.org/mailman/listinfo/fbusers

Re: [FormBuilder] requiring any of several fields

Nate Wiger — 2007-03-04T03:03:24

Have you tried using the FormBuilder Data::FormValidator support? -Nate _______________________________________________ FBusers mailing list FBusers< at >formbuilder.org http://www.formbuilder.org/mailman/listinfo/fbusers

[FormBuilder] requiring any of several fields

Ryan Tate — 2007-03-04T01:22:43

As far as I can tell, there is no way to require that any one of several fields be present. I have an app where I need either field1 or field2 filled out. Neither on its own is required, and a validate method attached to either field would not detect when both are empty because it would never get called! The workaround for me is to inspect the form after it is submitted, andmake sure one of the fields is set. If not, I mark one field as invalid and set its message to something useful, then send the form back to the user. What would be more useful would be a formwide_validate callback that checks the whole form, as opposed to a particular field like normal validate. This would be the logical place to do what I'm trying to accomplish. $form->formwide_validate(sub{ my $form = shift; ($form->field('foo') || $form->field('bar')) or return; return 1; }); _______________________________________________ FBusers mailing list FBusers< at >formbuilder.org http://www.formbuilder.org/mailman/listinfo/fbusers

Re: [FormBuilder] ETA on new release with mem leak fix and regexvalidation with commas?

Troy Davis — 2007-03-02T19:35:35

Hi Nate, Thanks for packaging that up! I didn't write the message reporting the regex comma issue, that was Kevin Montuori. I haven't worked with the js* options yet, so I'm not sure where I would go to test out the same tactic. Thank You, Troy On Mar 2, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Nate Wiger wrote: _______________________________________________ FBusers mailing list FBusers< at >formbuilder.org http://www.formbuilder.org/mailman/listinfo/fbusers

Re: [FormBuilder] ETA on new release with mem leak fix and regexvalidation with commas?

Nate Wiger — 2007-03-02T18:07:50

Troy- I just built 3.0501, which includes the memory leak fix. It'll be up on CPAN soon as well: http://www.formbuilder.org/download/CGI-FormBuilder-3.0501.tgz Feel free to send this to the Catalyst list too. There are no regex changes in this version - when we left it, I asked you a follow-up and never heard back. So that issue is still outstanding. -Nate _______________________________________________ FBusers mailing list FBusers< at >formbuilder.org http://www.formbuilder.org/mailman/listinfo/fbusers

[FormBuilder] ETA on new release with mem leak fix and regexvalidation with commas?

Troy Davis — 2007-03-02T16:10:01

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Re: [FormBuilder] Newbie, question about formbuilder

Nate Wiger — 2007-02-22T02:21:19

Sometimes this can be a good interface, if you're working with data that emulates a spreadsheet. I've done this, but to be honest, FormBuilder won't help you here. You'll need to build a standard HTML table (take a look at HTML::QuickTable) and then by far the easiest way I've found is to use jQuery (jquery.com) and the inPlaceEditor plugin here: http://davehauenstein.com/code/?a=inplace If you attach it to each of your rows, and give everything a UNIQUE id that you can parse, you can do a trick like this: id="table_rowid" For example: ... $('.editable).inPlaceEditor({ url: 'update.pl' }); Then you'll have to write some stub AJAX updating server-side script too. Here's a snip ($sql is an SQL::Abstract object): my($table, $id) = split /[_]+/, $cgi->param('element_id') my($stmt, < at >bind) = $sql->update($table, {value => $cgi->param('update_value')}, {id => $id}); $dbh->do($stmt, undef, < at >bind); print $cgi->param('update_value'); -Nate _______________________________________________ FBusers mailing list FBusers< at >formbuilder.org http://www.formbuilder.org/mailman/listinfo/fbusers

Re: [FormBuilder] Newbie, question about formbuilder

Dan Axtell — 2007-02-21T22:15:13

Personally, I think a giant form where you can edit any cell strikes me as a confusing interface, and problematic as the table gets big. Why not use Javascript to launch a pop-up form (created by FormBuilder) when you click on a row, that passes the row values into the form as URL parameters? _______________________________________________ FBusers mailing list FBusers< at >formbuilder.org http://www.formbuilder.org/mailman/listinfo/fbusers

[FormBuilder] Newbie, question about formbuilder

Daniel Vela — 2007-02-21T21:43:34

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[FormBuilder] how to attach formbuilder?

Mordion Gall — 2007-02-12T21:58:33

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Re: [FormBuilder] Default Values.

Hornet — 2007-02-12T15:12:25

Nate, Thanks for the info, that worked great! Thanks again!