The example config in this documentation: http://search.cpan.org/~cfranks/HTML-FormFu-Model-DBIC-0.06000/lib/HTML/FormFu/Model/DBIC.pm#might_have_and_has_one_relationships should work for this.
That error message is incorrect - it should read "nested_name" - not nested_names Carl On 14 February 2010 00:50, Octavian Rasnita <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 dependent tables with the following structure: > > create table communique( > id int unsigned not null auto_increment primary key, > last_modified timestamp not null default current_timestamp, > type varchar(255) not null default "" > ) engine=InnoDB default charset=utf8; > > create table aga( > id int unsigned not null auto_increment primary key, > communique int unsigned not null, > detail text, > unique index(communique), > constraint foreign key(communique) references communique(id) on delete > cascade > ) engine=InnoDB default charset=utf8; > > And I want to use Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu to update both tables. > > I have created the following form: > > > <model_config> > resultset Communique > </model_config> > > <elements> > name last_modified > type DateTime > label Last modified: > </elements> > > <elements> > name type > type Text > label Type: > </elements> > > <elements> > name agas.detail > type Textarea > label Details: > </elements> > > There is a relation named "agas" between communique and aga tables and I was > hoping that by using agas.detail, it would get/set the value from that > field, however unfortunately HTML::FormFu doesn't have this feature > (although it would be great). > > It gave the following error on form rendering: > > "Caught exception in Fu::Controller::Com->add "element names may not contain > periods or square brackets > see documentation on nested_names() for details" > > I have searched for documentation about "nested_names" but I couldn't find > anything. > > Maybe HTML::FormFu doesn't support multiple table updates by just using a > config file, but I hope there is a more elegant way of doing these updates > than getting the values from the form and making the DBIC updates manually. > > Does anyone know if nested_names() and the other related methods can help me > to update more tables from a single form? > > Thank you for any information regarding this. > > Octavian > > > _______________________________________________ > HTML-FormFu mailing list > HTML-FormFu@lists.scsys.co.uk > http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-formfu > _______________________________________________ HTML-FormFu mailing list HTML-FormFu@lists.scsys.co.uk http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-formfu
