[Seaside] Collecting form input

[Sebastian Nozzi]

Hi Phillipe,

thanks for your reply.

> You could also use ValueHolders but that gets quite ugly. I'd use
> instance variables and split it up.

I'll look into ValueHolders (never heard of them; but I'm a newbie... so...)

What do you mean by the latter? Because it was with instance variables
that I first tried, but as I said it didn't work:

| newName newSalutation |
html
       form: [html textInput value: 'type name here';
                        callback: [:name | newName := name].
                html select list: salutations;
                        callback: [:userSalutation| newSalutation :=
userSalutation ];
                        labels: [:userSalutation | userSalutation asString].
                html submitButton
                        callback: [self addUserNamed: newName
withSalutation: newSalutation];
                         value: 'Add New User']

When the callback in the submitButton was called, "newName" and
"newSalutation" were nil.

What I was trying to do is to avoid creating a temporary user
instance, and only create it when the user submits the data (the user
could instead opt to go back).

But I think I might be overcomplicating things and I might just create
the temporary instance, since I'm creating a Dictionary anyway...

Greetings,

Sebastian