Edition control

This chapter covers the editing capabilities of CubicWeb. It explains html Form construction, the Edit Controller and their interactions.

• HTML form construction
  • Exploring the available forms
  • The Automatic Entity Form
  • Anatomy of a choices function
  • Building self-posted form with custom fields/widgets
  • APIs
• Dissection of an entity form
  • Populating the database
  • Looking at the html output
• The form validation process
  • Validation loop
  • Explanation
• The edit controller
  • Edition handling
  • Redirection control
• Examples
  • (Automatic) Entity form
  • Ad-hoc fields form