[cgiapp] Re: Help with CGI::Application::Plugin::HTMLPrototype

[Robert Hicks <suppressed>]

Cees Hek wrote:
> On 5/21/06, Prakash Inuganti -X (pinugant - Digital-X, Inc. at Cisco)
> <suppressed> wrote:
> > Yes, you are correct. Thanks. I already have a full blown Application
> > developed using CAP and H::T. So using Template Toolkit right now is not
> > an option for me. Now I am adding a page that has a select box with
> > 60,000+ names stored in Oracle database that needs to be shown as
> > dropdown options. So started looking at these Modules and AJAX. My idea
> > is to provide a text field and a button. After user enters a few
> > characters and clicks the button, I intend to populate the select drop
> > down with names matching the text field entry. I am still at a learning
> > phase so any ideas or sample code to accomplish this in CAP and H:;T
> > would be a great help.
>
> You should look at using the AutoComplete object in HTML::Prototype.
> It will do exactly what you are trying to do, with minimal fuss.  I
> have an example app running that uses this feature if you want to have
> a look at how I did it:
>
> http://cees.crtconsulting.ca/perl/examples/podviewer/
>
> In fact, a version of that example is included with the source for
> CGI::Application::Plugin::HTMLPrototype.  Although my example uses
> Template Toolkit.  You can try and get it to work with HTML::Template,
> but if that fails, you can always just use the JavaScript library
> directly.  Just run my example code, and then do a view source in the
> browser to see the exact JavaScript code that the HTML::Prototype
> library generates for you.  Then just copy and paste that into your
> templates.

Hey Cees,

In looking at your source there (cool by the way) a question came to 
mind. The template is stored in the __DATA__ section. Is that your 
standard practice? Is it only because it is one page/template or does 
the Ajax integration need it that way?

Robert


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