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Posted by Manuel Lemos on 03/04/07 07:46
Hello,
on 02/25/2007 07:48 AM Andrew Taylor said the following:
> 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.
I don't know aboyt Quickform class because I don't use it, but it seems
the problem is that you are not able to customize the form templates.
I use this other class that also has an automatic layout renderer like
quickform, but it lets you customize the input row templates.
The class can also let you render forms with custom HTML templates or
even Smarty templates:
http://www.phpclasses.org/formsgeneration
Take a look at some live examples with source code here:
http://www.meta-language.net/forms-examples.html
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Regards,
Manuel Lemos
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