[TYPO3-dev] future of FORM

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] ernst at cron-it.de
Thu Aug 26 09:50:00 CEST 2010


Reinhard Führicht schrieb am 25.08.2010 19:35:

>> Thank you for the insight - i would appreciate if the project would go
>> on and i'm still very interested in a solution to easily manage forms.
>> Reinhard - leader of formhandler-project - once wrote me (sorry for
>> quoting without asking):
>> "IMHO the most reasonable was, if all developers working on something
>> with forms in TYPO3, would come together and negotiate a single core
>> extension that provides the basic functionality and a good API for
>> advanced needs. If we could get that there would be no need for so much
>> people worrying about one and the same problem and we finally had a form
>> handler thats fast, stable and powerfull." (Translated from german)
>> +2
>> Cheers,
>> Christian
> 
> Thanks for reminding me about that. I really wanted to get in touch with
> all the form extension authors, but I somehow got busy and forgot about it.
> I talked to Patrick during the t3dd09 about providing error checks and
> utility function in core to be used in form handling extensions, but
> this came to nothing too somehow.
> It would be really cool to team up and try to provide at least some
> useful error checks in core. The new FORM object needs them, Formhandler
> needs them, Powermail needs them and any other form extension too.

That might be a good candidate for a start to get stuff in small steps
into the core (in 4.5). Can you ellaborate a bit more on what you mean
with "error checks" and "utility functions"?

Cheers,
Ernesto




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