[TYPO3-project-formidable] Official Forms Library

[Raphael GEYER]

Hi David,

Official extension ... what does that mean ? are you sponsored by the TYPO3 
association ?

Yes, FORMidable lacks a correct documentation. Yes, it doesn't have neither 
any wiki page that presents it. Expect the community to correct this really 
soon, David.

Yes, we have been in contact with Christopher Koehler but when he collected 
ideas and suggestions FORMidable was already existing.

As you said, you didn't follow the progress of FORMidable which was a form 
library in it's first release.
Now, FORMidable is a framework which not only allows to create Forms but 
also manages business interactions (display results, search forms, server 
events ...)

The goal of ameos_formidable is not to be any official extension, Ingmar 
Schlecht and Sebastian Kurfuerst already planned to work on a common form 
library for TYPO3 usable in the BackEnd and the FrontEnd which should 
replace TCA and all this stuff. And this *is* official. They, as core 
developpers, asked us to help them achieving this because, as Sebastian said 
at Dietikon "FORMidable would be the perfect form library for TYPO3 v5"

FORMidable has been presented at T3DD06 in Dietikon, and the assembly was 
really enthousiastic. (A demonstration is also planned at T3CON06)

FORMidable is also succesfuly integrated FORMidable in huge TYPO3 projects, 
such as : Peugeot's intranet, CEA's intranet, UN's intranet, 
http://www.30millionsdamis.fr/ , http://www.a-e-r.org/ ...

There is also a living community that uses formidable, and developping 
add-ons for FORMidable ( thx Jeremy, Radu, FS, ... )

If tx_forms reveals itselves as the right way of doing the same things that 
we can do with FORMidable, maybe could we collaborate and merge your work 
into ours and we are open to share ideas.

Regards,

Raphael GEYER
http://www.ameos.com


"David Toshack" <david at vaultin.com> a écrit dans le message de news: 
mailman.1.1158737987.12857.typo3-project-formidable at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi guys,
>
> Looks like there are some great things going on in this newsgroup. I
> worry though, that there are currently two parallel projects with the
> goal of forms management.
>
> There is now an official tx_forms extension in the works which worries
> me a little that your hard work on formidable will soon become obsolete
> to the TYPO3 public once the official forms library is complete. Have I
> admit I haven't followed the progress of formidable of late but I was
> wondering if you guys have been in contact with Christopher Koehler in
> regard to merging any outstanding features back into tx_forms?
>
>
> Cheers,
> David