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Posted by Andrew Taylor on 02/25/07 10:48
I've been struggling for a long time with HTML_Quickform from PEAR. The
concept is ideal, but, the implementation is (IMHO) a bit of a kludge.
As a developer I want a quick and easy way to generate/validate/process
forms without hand hacking HTML, however, I also want it to be easy to
do! The HTML_Quickform method seems to require more work than it should
and whenever you start getting really complicated forms, the hassle
starts to outweigh the benefits.
I know XForm is currently lacking client-side support, but, with the
implemtation of decent XML parsing functions on PHP5 I'm suprised by
the lack of uptake in this area. XForm would be an ideal way of
managing the process, extremely lightweight XML that can be processed
on the server-side and sent as standard HTML to the client. Once the
client-side support picks up then you can just present the original XML
and no-need to re-code your app.
Are there some projects that perhaps I haven't found? I noticed they're
working on HTML_Quickform2 to make up PHP5 compatibility, surely a
better solution would be to push forward with Xforms? Or is it more
policital, I know XForms have been around a while, is there something
stopping them getting the support they need.
Any comments?
Andrew
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