[dancer-users] Trapping parameters from a dynamic list of checkboxes.

John Stoffel john at stoffel.org
Fri Aug 28 19:46:01 BST 2015


And I just looked at it again, and it's still not what I want.
Basically I don't need tables of results... or actually that's not
what the customer wants returned.  

It does look really really slick... but not for my needs.  Oh well...

Thanks for the reminder.  Now back to our regular dancer questions....

Such as what's the best way to paginate results nicely?  Ideally using
server side searching... and search forms with multiple search boxes.

The single box google style search isn't what we need.  More something
like the Newegg search term search, where you can add/delete stuff on
the fly.  

John> I've looked at datatables in the past, but since my search interfaces are
John> mostly for small collections at a a research library, it's not quite
John> what the end customer wants.  

John> Basically, they want a paged output, with the results formatted as
John> they like for each record.  

John> http://clarence.mwa.org/Carey

John> is my initial Dancer implementation.  Still needs work and skinning,
John> which reflects my comment on bootstrap and client side javascript
John> needs for better pagination.

John> I've been trying to move away from PHP backend stuff, but this is all
John> side projects when I get a chance, not my day to day job at all.


David> I've done a lot of work with
David> datatables: https://www.datatables.net/ with Dancer if that's
David> the sort of thing you're thinking of?

David> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Richard Reina <gatorreina at gmail.com> wrote:

David> Hi John,
   
David> Under an insane deadline right now but would be happy to do a write up in the future. Please
David> send me a note with instructions on where to send it.
   
David> 2015-08-28 9:06 GMT-05:00 John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org>:
   
>>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Reina <gatorreina at gmail.com> writes:
       
Richard> Thank you all for the very sage replies. This was all so very
Richard> instructive that I put the derefrencing syntax in the
Richard> comments of my code in case I need in the future.
       
David> It would be great if you could write up your experience and document
David> what you learned, as a tutorial for future learners of this
David> framework.
       
David> Personally, I'm interested in building apps to search databases (read
David> only) and present the results in a nice manner, with paging and good
David> performance.  My latest search form is really nice, because it's quite
David> short.
       
David> But the integration with a nice CSS framework (like bootstrap which I
David> keep looking at...) and some core Javascript is the stumbling block.
David> While I love and know perl well, I'm starting to think that doing ALL
David> the work in one language makes more sense.
       
David> So learning node.js for both the front end and backend drops
David> complexity.  But Javascript is ugly to my eyes... just like I'm sure
David> Perl is ugly to Javascript guys.  My age is showing.  Heh.
       
David> In any case, my core comment is that having a documented and basic
David> example application with lots of stuff already done is a great
David> resource and way to get people upto speed using Dancer to make great
David> apps.
       
David> John
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