Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-templating/www/doc/guide/form-process.adp =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-templating/www/doc/guide/form-process.adp,v diff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-templating/www/doc/guide/form-process.adp 27 Oct 2014 16:40:23 -0000 1.2 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-templating/www/doc/guide/form-process.adp 7 Aug 2017 23:48:03 -0000 1.3 @@ -1,33 +1,40 @@ -{/doc/acs-templating {Templating}} {Templating System User Guide: Validating and Processing Form +{/doc/acs-templating {ACS Templating}} {Templating System User Guide: Validating and Processing Form Submissions} Templating System User Guide: Validating and Processing Form Submissions - - -

Validating and Processing Form Submissions

-Important Note: The ad_form +

Validating and Processing Form Submissions

+ +Templating System : User +Guide +

+Important Note: The ad_form function has been written to be a more consistent, easier way to create and manage dynamic forms. Behind the scenes it uses the -templating system's form builder, but it hides much of its +templating system's form builder, but it hides much of its complexity. You should definitely look at it and at the pages that -use it in the survey package.

The templating system provides a simple infrastructure for +use it in the survey package.

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The templating system provides a simple infrastructure for validating form submissions. The typical life-cycle of a form is as -follows:

    +follows:

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    1. The user makes the initial request for a page containing a form. The code associated with the page creates the form (with the -form create command) and populates it with elements.
    2. The developer may use the form is_request command to +form create command) and populates it with +elements.
    3. The developer may use the form is_request command to encapsulate any special initialization (for example, setting a -primary key value for an Add form, or retrieving current -values for an Edit form).
    4. The formtemplate tag is used to enclose the form +primary key value for an Add form, or retrieving +current values for an Edit form).
    5. The formtemplate tag is used to enclose the form template. This tag is responsible for generating the appropriate -HTML FORM tag in the final output. The -formtemplate tag also embeds a special hidden variable in -the form for the purpose of identifying incoming submissions.
    6. By default, the formtemplate tag sets the -ACTION attribute of the FORM tag to the +HTML FORM tag in the final output. The +formtemplate tag also embeds a special hidden variable +in the form for the purpose of identifying incoming +submissions.
    7. By default, the formtemplate tag sets the +ACTION attribute of the FORM tag to the same URL as that of the form itself. The submission is therefor processed within the framework of the same code that was used to create the form.
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