Stuff

#
# My intention for this package is to construct a set of modules that
# will allow me to easily display a pre-"configured" CGI::FormBuilder
# object.
#
# This outputs the surrounding html as well as some of the data
# set in &new below (see comments). However, other vital parts,
# such as generated javascript and form elements, are obviously broken.
#
# <!-- Generated by CGI::FormBuilder v3.04 available from www.formbuilder.org -->
# <form action="test.pl" id="Signup" method="get" name="Signup">
# <div>
# <input id="_submitted_Signup" name="_submitted_Signup" type="hidden" value="1" />
# <table>
#         MSI::Form::Signup=HASH(0x830c6f0)
# </table>
#
# <tr id="Signup_firstname_row" valign="top">
#  <td>MSI::Form::Signup=HASH(0x830c6f0) id Signup_firstname_label class </td>
#
# ...
#
# 


package MSI::Form::Signup;

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI::Pretty qw/:standard/;
use CGI::FormBuilder;

our @ISA = qw/CGI::FormBuilder/;

sub new {
  my $proto  = shift;
  my $class  = ref($proto) || $proto;
  my @fields = qw(firstname surname);

  #
  # The below works perfectly well when excluded from my package.
  # Clearly I need more perl practice..
  #

  my $self = $class -> SUPER::new (
    name   => 'Signup',
    fields => \@fields,
    text   => h2('Join the community!'), # this is outputted

    header => 0,
    validate => {
      firstname => 'NAME',
      surname   => 'NAME'
    }
  );

  #
  # This string is outputted as expected (or, rather, as I was hoping for).
  #

  $self -> fields( name => 'firstname', label => 'Please enter your first name');

  #
  # I guess this is re-blessing, and a bad idea?
  #

  return bless $self, $class;
}

1;