Re: inflating columns to objects

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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:23:38 +0100, Dave Howorth
<dhoworth@xxxxxxx.xxx.xx.xx> wrote:
> I'm having a problem on a Maypole edit page, but I think the problem is
> something I'm doing wrong in Class::DBI with respect to Class::DBI::AsForm.
> 
> I'm trying to use an object to represent a column:
> 
>     seq   LONGTEXT NOT NULL,
>     INDEX (seq(10))
> 
> The value in the database is a potentially long string (and that is what
> I want to keep in the database :) but when it is displayed, I want to
> format it into lines of a reasonable length.

Would a <textarea> not suffice here? It does the wrapping for you
within the browser but will send it all back as a single string to the
server. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with asForm so I can't tell you
how to get a <textarea> versus an <input type="text">

Drew
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