NAME
    Validation::Class::Plugin::FormFields - HTML Form Field Renderer for
    Validation::Class

VERSION
    version 0.33

SYNOPSIS
        # THIS PLUGIN IS UNTESTED AND MAY BE SUBJECT TO DESIGN CHANGES!!!

        use Validation::Class::Simple;

        my $rules = Validation::Class::Simple->new(
            fields => {
                username    => { required => 1 },
                password    => { required => 1 },
                remember_me => { required => 1, options => ['1|Remember Me?'] }
            }
        );

        my $fields = $rules->plugin('form_fields');

        print $fields->textbox('username');
        print $fields->textbox('password', type => 'password');
        print $fields->checkgroup('remember_me');

DESCRIPTION
    Validation::Class::Plugin::FormFields is a plugin for Validation::Class
    which can leverage your validation class field definitions to render
    HTML form elements. Please note that this plugin is intentionally
    lacking in sophistication and try to take as few liberties as possible.

RATIONALE
    Validation::Class::Plugin::FormFields is not an HTML form handler, nor
    is it an HTML form builder, renderer, construction kit, or framework.
    Why render fields individually and not the entire form? Form handling is
    a heavily opinionated subject and this plugin reflects the following
    perspective.

    HTML form generation, done literally, has too many contraints and
    considerations to ever be truly ideal. Consider the following, it's been
    tried many many times before, it's never pretty, too many conflicting
    contexts (css, js, security and identification), css wants the form
    configured a certain way for styling purposes, js wants the form
    configured a certain way for introspection purposes, the app wants the
    form configured a certain way for processing purposes, etc.

    So why do we continue to try? HTML forms are like werewolves and
    developers love silver bullets, but bullets are actually made out of
    lead, not silver. So how do you kill werewolves with lead? Hint, not by
    shooting them obviously.

    I'd argue that we never really wanted complete form rendering anyway,
    what we actually wanted was a simple way to reduce the tedium and
    repetitiveness that comes with creating HTML form elements and handling
    submission and validation of the associated data. We keep getting it
    wrong because we keep trying to build on top of the same misconceptions.

    So maybe we should backup a bit and try something different. The
    generating of HTML elements is alot less constrained and definately much
    more straight-forward.

AUTHOR
    Al Newkirk <anewkirk@ana.io>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Al Newkirk.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

