[Haskell-cafe] Adding Html formatting to formlets

[Jeremy Shaw]

Hello,

Formlets is deprecated in favor of digestive functors. If you have not looked at the digestive-functors package I highly recommend that you do. It fixes a lot of little issues that formlets had -- but is basically the same thing. 

The (<<<) operator is a already a standard operator in Control.Category / Control.Arrow. So, it is probably confusing to reuse that symbol for something else…

The digestive functors library defines two new operators (++>) and (<++) which are somewhat related to what you are trying to do. 

In HTML, the <label> tag is supposed to reference the 'id' of the field is it labeling. For example, you might have:

 <label for="username">Username: </label><input text="text" id="username" name="username" value="">

In formlets, there was no way to do that because the 'ids' are not accessible to the user. In digestive functors you can use the ++> operator to 'share' an id between to elements. That allows you to write:

label "Username :" ++>  inputText Nothing

Anyway, I would  love to see:

 a) your new combinators renamed and reimplemented for digestive-functors
 b) the type signatures of these new operators

With out the type signatures it is a bit hard to decipher what your new operators are actually doing..

But, I love seeing any new improvements to the formlets/digestive-functors concept! 

- jeremy



On Feb 2, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:

> I came across the idea that is easy to define additional operators to
> Text.FormLets for adding custom HTML formatting.
> Had anyone tried that?
> 
> 
> For example to enclose the Prod formulary in a Table using Text.XHtml
> tags. I defined additional operators <<< and <++ for enclosing and
> prepending
> Html to a formLet, respectively:
> 
>> data Prod= Prod{pname :: String, pprice :: Int}
> 
>> getProd= table <<< (
>>      Prod <$> tr <<< (td << "enter the name"  <++ td <<< getString (pname <$> mp))
>>                <*> tr <<< (td << "enter the price"   <++ td <<< getInt ( pprice <$> mp)))
> 
> 
> even:
> 
>> p << "paragraph" <++ getProd   ++> (more Html stuff)
> 
>  is possible
> 
> or even it is possible an operator <+>
> 
>> getProd <+> someOtherStuff
> 
> to return  Either Prod OtherStuff
> 
> 
> I did it in my own version of FormLets. So It is too heavy to put
> here a running example. It is part of a package that I will upload
> soon to hackage.
> 
> 
> 
> This also may work for embedding formLets in other haskell HTML
> formats besides Text.XHtml.
> 
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