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The phone and email fields are also special. Since we want to make sure that the user submits realistic phone numbers and email addresses, we tell FormBuilder to use its built-in EMAIL and PHONE validators (see the FormBuilder documentation for a full list of validation types). If the built-in validation functions don't meet your needs, you can also specify a regular expression in single quotes instead. FormBuilder will generate the JavaScript equivalent of this regex for client-side validation and then use the regex as you specified it for the server-side validation.

Tt template to change the look of the page. You shouldn't even need to restart your development server for changes to take effect. pm and another template. pl -r -d. The -r will cause the server to restart when appropriate, and the -d will show debugging information, even if you've turned it off inside your application. tt template showed up without your code ever calling any methods in the Template Toolkit View. pm uses an ActionClass called "RenderView". The end action in Root is called at the end of every request, and the RenderView ActionClass will automatically forward to the default View.

DBIC::Schema is what sort of model we're creating. MyApp::Schema::TestDatabase is where the schema definition will be stored (we won't use the Schema in this example, but real applications will). ). The final argument is the DBI connect string for the database. We'll also create another Controller for the database page, to avoid cluttering up the Hello or Root controllers. tt. pm Controller. In this case, using the index action that's automatically generated will be fine, since we don't need any arguments.