October 1999
Beginner
521 pages
15h 28m
English
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A Docbase Form Template
A user creates a Docbase record by means of a web form. The form isn’t served statically, though. It’s generated on the fly from a template. After all that discussion in the last chapter about the virtues of dynamically generated but statically served pages, why should we generate this form? The technique helps us to constrain inputs, enforce controlled vocabularies, and divide the responsibility for completing different parts of the form among different people.
Example 6.1 shows the template for the ProductAnalysis input form.
Example 6-1. ProductAnalysis Input Form Template
<html> <head> <title>Product Analysis Report Form</title> </head> <body> <center><b>Product Analysis Report Form</b></center> <form method="post" action="!ACTION!"> <table cellpadding="4"> <tr> <td align="right"><b>Assignment Date</b></td> <td align="left">|assigndate|</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><b>Due Date</b></td> <td align="left">~duedate~</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><b>Analyst</b></td> <td align="left">~analyst~</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><b>Company</b></td> <td align="left">~company~</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><b>Product</b></td> <td align="left">~product~</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><b>Title</b></td> <td align="left"><input name="title" size="40"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><b>Summary</b></td> <td align="left"><textarea name="summary" rows="2" cols="50" wrap="virtual"></textarea></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><b>Full report</b></td> ...
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