[TYPO3-dev] Revamped FORM cObj, take 2

[Francois Suter]

Hi,

Finally following up on this issue.

I have read Patrick Broens' new document in the wiki [1] which is really 
good for discussion. It is a good inventory of form elements. Although 
it is mentioned that fieldsets can be nested and be used for layout too 
(like displaying a form in 2 columns, for example), I wonder whether 
this is really enough for a flexible display of forms. I still think we 
should include grouping elements like I proposed in [2] in the form syntax.

I have also worked a little bit more on the test bed extension I made 
for exploring the form rendering (advancedform). I copied the 
tslib_content::FORM() method over to the pi1, so it is now possible to 
truely use advancedform for rendering of standard forms. I have added a 
few instructions in the README file. I haven't changed much yet, just 
the rendering of the radio buttons, because the current code makes it 
impossible to obtain a markup such as outlined in [1] or [2] for radio 
button groups.

The extension has been released to TER as version 0.0.3.

(I know we should be concentrating on 4.2 for now, but I have an 
opportunity to work on this topic today...)

-- 

Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch

[1] http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Form_cObj_for_TYPO3_4.3
[2] http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Form_Structure_for_TYPO3_4.3