Posted by tim on 05/19/06 18:35

Luke wrote:
> Hello guys! Thank you for your posts!
>
> Life is not so easy... forms include all possible HTML elements (text,
> radio, select, textarea, lists) so the parsing would have to be more
> sophisticated. I'll look at your examples.
>
> Keep in mind, that forms all already designed, so I can not output the
> entire forms/tables/html [like in one of your examples]! Forms always
> have to look the same (while filling out/editing/printing).

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2006/03/16/autofill-forms.html
It can refill input textarea and checkboxe formsfields and I found it
very easy to use. Not sure about its support for drop down lists.

>
> Also, since it was all designed by drag and drop tools, HTML is
> horrible! single <input> element takes about 5 lines /tons of styles
> and javascript/

This complexity could be a problem for the the autofill script as it
uses a few complex regular expressions.

If the regexes aren't flexible enough it may not cope with mulitline
tags and complex html, it worked well witht he simple examples I have
used it for though.

Tim

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