Is there any way to make forms use the HTTP PUT method instead of POST? I can’t find an option for that in formex_form_for to change the (default) POST method.
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jakub-zawislak
Use:
formex_form_for(form, action, method: :put)
Almost all of options are passed to a Phoenix.HTML.Form.form_for/4 options. You can check the implementation here:
https://github.com/jakub-zawislak/formex/blob/185828a07dfd17b2d2d54d272963eb01f7563a15/lib/formex/view.ex#L88
If you are using formex_ecto, then this option is set by default depending on create/update action
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jakub-zawislak
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@jakub-zawislak, Phonix’s respurce generators + Formex give you a pretty cool CRUD interface almost for free. The only thing missing is filters for the Index view. We can probably just copy what torch does, but we can improve on it because we can use Formex itself to write the form for the filters.
Instead of using generators we can use macros (as I mentioned above) that generate templates and controllers for us, but then it becomes hard to add customizations. The amount of code one needs to generate is actually quite manageable because Formex does some of the heavy lifting for us.
PS: Using macros is much cooler than using generators, of course, but generating “normal”
controllers makes it much easier to add things like authorization with the proper level of granularity, for example, because you can add new plugs and even add code inside the controller functions.
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Also, I’ve discovered that if you’re building an Admin panel and you the build_form callback inside the module that defines the Ecto schema everything becomes much less verbose. I’m still not sure that this level of coupling is a good thing.
I think it is, because you should define a new context for your Admin interface, and there is no problem is the schemas in that conext come with some helper functions that make using forms easier.
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ChrisZou
carlosarli
hi,
I am trying to use formex ecto to create a nested form but I get some odd errors even though I went through the a few times… I keep getting an error saying that create_form is undefined… nay ideas why that might be the case?
Anyway congrats for the library and I really hope to manage to get in working 
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jakub-zawislak
create_form is undefined means that you are not using Formex.Controller.
Make sure you added this in web/web.ex:
def controller do
quote do
use Phoenix.Controller
# ...
use Formex.Controller # <-- make sure you added this
end
end
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