User Contributed Perl Documentation                       Form(3)


     Publication::Form - Perl extension for creating Forms for
     the publication database.

       use Publication::Form;

       my $form = Form->new($cgi, $dbhandle);

       $form->publication_form();

       $form->print_success();

       This module provides an object that creates forms.

     Use this module to create forms.

        Publication::Form->new($cgi, $dbhandle):
               Creates a new, fully functional instance of Form

        Publication::Form->new($cgi):
               Creates a limited instance of Form (cannot run
               methods that indicate they require a db handle).

        $form->publication_form($publication):
               Prints the form to edit a publication (whether
               that publication exists or not) REQUIRES
               DB HANDLE

        $form->print_no_exist()
               This is an error page for when a publication
               isn't in the database. (May become deprecated.)

        $form->print_success()
               Prints a nice success message and some links.

        $form->print_short_success()
               Same things without links for the general people.

        $form->verify_del($publication)
               The "are you sure you want to delete this" page
               that you should have to go through to delete a
               publication.

        $form->no_accepted()
               When there are no TMP publications waiting to be
               accepted.

        $form->accept_type()
               When an outside user has entered a publication
               a type needs to be selected for it before it can
               be edited and accepted.

        $form->year_search_table($calling_script, $search_script)
               Makes a table, complete with form, to do a search
               by year, giving the search string to $search_script.
               $calling_script is used for the Select All and
               clear functions.

        $form->type_search_table($calling_script, $search_script)
               Makes a table, complete with form, to do a search
               by type and year, giving the search string to
               $search_script. $calling_script is used for the
               Select All and clear functions.

        $form->number_search_table($search_script)
               Makes a table, complete with form, to do a search
               by number giving the search string to $search_script.

        $form->content_search_table()
               Makes a simple text search for InQuery, in a table
               with the necessary form tags.

        $form->advanced_search_table()
               Makes a far more complex search for InQuery, in a
               table with the necessary form tags. Can search by
               year, author, title, conference, type, and text.

        $form->abstract_edit_table($publication)
               A table to edit/view the abstract of a publication.

        $form->funding_search_table($search_script)
               Makes a table, complete with form, to do a search
               by funding, giving the search string to
               $search_script. REQUIRES DB HANDLE

        $form->copyright()
               Nice little copyright info.

     Publication::Publication Publication::Search

     Eric Galis, <egalis@student.umass.edu<gt>

     Copyright 2004 by Eric Galis

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



perl v5.8.0          Last change: 2004-04-29                    2