Forms in Scala play framework

Question

Hello i am a beginner to scala play framework. I am unable to create form with two or more inputs. i googled it and found none in scala programming language. Kindly suggest me an idea regarding how to create multiple inputs in a form using scala. i did this

val form = Form (tuple
    (
"firstname"-> text,
"lastname" -> text
)
)  and to get the values val(fname,lname) = form.bindFromRequest.get

am i following correct way. Kindly suggest me any idea or resource to learn scala play framework . Thanks in advance

Are you by any chance importing scala.text? Removing it and adding the appropriate imports as below answer by @Matt Robots should solve your problem. — binshi

Matt Roberts Matt Roberts · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-31T17:46:33

Here is a complete (but simple) form example for Play 2.1.1. Including the view, controller and routes file. I suspect you were missing imports and / or an implicit request. Both of which would be understandable!

The controller (Application.scala):

package controllers

import play.api._
import play.api.mvc._
import play.api.data._
import play.api.data.Forms._

object Application extends Controller {
  val form = Form(
    tuple(
      "firstname" -> text,
      "lastname" -> text
    )
  )

  def index = Action {
    Ok(views.html.index())
  }

  def submit = Action { implicit request =>
    val (fname, lname) = form.bindFromRequest.get
    Ok("Hi %s %s".format(fname, lname))
  }
}

The view (index.scala.html):

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Form example</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form method="post" autocomplete="on">
      First name:<input type="text" name="firstname"><br>
      Last name: <input type="text" name="lastname"><br>
      <input type="submit">
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

And the routes:

GET     /                           controllers.Application.index
POST    /                           controllers.Application.submit

NB: The name attributes in your HTML view must match the string literals in your controller form.

Hope that helps.

Forms in Scala play framework

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