I just sat down to do something I thought would be easy,
and found that I can't really figure out how to get it done.
I'd like to generate my own HTML form elements from within
a template, without using the built-ins that use as_form
or as_html. To pick the simplest example, suppose I'm in
my "book" class, at http://mysite.com/book/add . Each
"book" has_a "format".
I thought there would be a way to get right to the format
stuff, but there doesn't seem to be. Yet even when I start
with the Template::Plugin::Class stuff it doesn't seem to
work: if I try
[% USE book = Class(classmetadata.name) %]
(classmetadata.name convieniently returns MyDB::Book or
whatever), I still can't seem to get at the related
stuff: doing something like
FOREACH format = book.format
bombs out with
undef error - Can't fetch data as class method at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Template/Plugin/Class.pm
line 35
I'd like ultimately to do something like
[% CGI.popup_menu({ name => "format",
values => ## SOMETHING
labels => ## SOMETHING
default => ## SOMETHING
}) %]
Thanks. I'd think something like this should go into the
docs somewhere, for people who don't want to use the whole
HTML::Element autogeneration stuff.
Jesse Sheidlower
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