[Typo3-dev] Frontend Forms Code Library

[Sven Wilhelm]

Hi Robert,

> For my current project (a complete rewrite of the rlmp_eventdb extension) I
> needed an easy-to-use but flexible way for rendering forms with multiple
> steps. I didn't really need functions which automatically write the data
> into different tables, I was just interested in the rendering part and
> automatic handling of the session data.

why not start a really object oriented solution?
all the solutions out there handle little ways to solve a problem, no
solution really wants to be a general way to do it.

I also started a form project with two other developers. Reason is only
the license problem of html_quickform. My wish is to have such a full
featured system at the end. Integration into typo3 could be done by a
wrapping class. But the clean structure at the start should be important.

One class for each element, a nice structure with inheritence (then you
have a good module system that can be integrated in many solutions).

The ideas of our form system (as the ideas of quickform):

* Objectoriented system
* Validation based on rules
* (Later) divide form system from rendering
* (Later) enable non-programming ways for form describing

Cheers