[dancer-users] Help with a POST
Richard Reina
gatorreina at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 21:25:28 BST 2015
Okay will start over and try this. I take it I should start over in
Dancer2 right?
2015-08-07 15:15 GMT-05:00 John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org>:
>
> Andrew,
>
> I think you really need to back up and start from scratch
> again. Unfortunately I've got family around and can't spend the time
> to help directly, but what I would do is:
>
>
> 1. start a new dancer project.
>
> 2. build a new template for the index page with a <form ....>
> ... </form> in it with just a single text entry and a submit button.
> Simple stuff. Make sure the text post has a name of 'query'.
>
> 3. You need two routes in your lib/Module.pm file:
>
> package Module;
> use Dancer ':syntax';
> use Dancer::Plugin::DBIC;
>
> our $VERSION = '0.1';
>
> get '/' => sub {
> template 'index', {
> title => "The Index",
> };
> };
>
> get '/search' => sub {
> my $query = params->{query} || "";
> my $regexp = $query;
> $regexp =~ s/\?|\*/\.\*/g;
> my $tobold = $query;
> $tobold =~ s/\?|\*//g;
>
> my @results = ();
> my $limit = 50;
> if (length $query) {
> @results = _perform_search($regexp,$limit);
> }
> }
>
>
> And of course a subroutine called _perform_search() to do the actual
> work.
>
>
> Once you have that working, try using the POST method, and adding in
> the:
>
> post '/search2' => sub {
>
> }
>
> routines. Then you *should* be able ot handle it.
>
> I'd also look more closely at the Dancer Advent calendar stuff as
> well. The advantage of GET calls is that you can more easily wrap
> them into a div and return results, etc.
>
> But honestly I'm an old dog also learning new tricks... :-)
>
> John
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