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headers Daniel Vela | 21 Feb 22:43

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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?
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On 2/21/07, Dan Axtell <daniel.axtell <at> snet.net> wrote:
> 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?

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:

   <td id="cities_100923" class="editable"> ...

   $('.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, @bind) = $sql->update($table, {value =>
$cgi->param('update_value')}, {id => $id});
   $dbh->do($stmt, undef, @bind);
   print $cgi->param('update_value');

-Nate
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Dan Axtell <daniel.axtell <at> snet.net> writes:

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> 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?
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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

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