Re: [Maypole] AsForm and textarea

From: Brian Glass (brian at glassbrian.com)
Date: Sun Oct 17 2004 - 23:36:50 BST


Thanks for pointing that out. I thought I had checked that, but I guess
I read the update date wrong. It was late at night...

I did this update and it fixed my <textarea> problems but broke enums. I
realized I was running with a patched AsForm as per the following:

    http://lists.netthink.co.uk/pipermail/maypole/2004-April/000126.html

Is there any thought (Simon?) to adding this patch (or something
similar) to AsForm?

Stephen Quinney wrote:

>On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 09:52:51PM -0400, Brian Glass wrote:
>
>
>>to_field doesn't seem to work for me when the field is a large text
>>field (e.g. text, or blob). It creates a <textarea> which is what I
>>want, but it doesn't populate the <textarea> with data from the database.
>>
>>I looked at the code and discovered that on line 100 (near the end of
>>to_field) it returns $class->_to_textarea($field) when in fact it should
>>return $self->_to_textarea($field).
>>
>>
>
>It looks to me like you are using version 2.2 (or earlier) of
>CDBI::AsForm. The changelog for version 2.3 says:
>
>2.3 Mon Jul 19 12:22:50 BST 2004
> - Patch from Randall Lucas to fix textarea breakage
> - The tests work too
>
>A quick examination of the code does show that it is $self->_to_textarea
>and not $class->_to_textarea that is being called in to_field().
>
>So, the simple answer is, you need to upgrade your CDBI::AsForm module.
>
>Stephen Quinney
>
>
>
>

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