[Typo3-dev] FORMidable front end forms : please help us improve !

[Michael Scharkow]

Jerome wrote:
> Hello community,
> 
> For those of you wanting to create Front end forms for their extensions, we 
> just released the first version of ameos_formidable, a front end form api.
> It's configured by XML.
> 
> We tried to make it really flexible and extensible. And, for once, not using 
> TypoScript nor Hooks, but just XML configuration and object heritage and 
> specialization.
> 
> If some of you interested in the domain could take a quick look and tell us 
> how we could improve what you think is a weak point ( if any ;), it would be 
> very useful for us.

Hi Jerome,

this looks very nice, and it *could* be the base of a new general 
formlib (so I have less typing to do ;). But some questions first:

1. You don't happen to have a stripped-down version of the actual php 
files (without all the mod/pi1/emconf-stuff? It's just too many files to 
glance over...

2. Why only frontend?
3. Did you try to implement $TCA-like configuration when implementing 
the XML stuff? How much effort would it take to exchange your XML config 
with standard $TCA?
4. Did I overlook the textarea type?

All in all, a very nice job. I think I will play with this for a while.

Greetings,
Michael