[TYPO3-project-formidable] Formidable : a beginners point of view

[Jerome Schneider]

Hello Rob,

First, thanx for your congrats, it's good to hear :)

I personaly agree with this concepts of small-concrete-copypastable 
snippets of code preceded by a "How to do xyz ?"

And I you said, the wiki is the perfect tool for this, as anyone can 
share his understanding of the stuff, packaged in a nice traditional API 
doc.
It would be great to have something like the php user comments in the 
php documentation ( for instance, bottom section of any function doc, 
like echo http://www.php.net/echo ). Many times i go straight to user 
comments to have concrete-real-life php examples, really handy.

But things are moving slowly in the documentation; surely is it the lack 
of time for us at ameos and for users also.

Hopefuly is it going to change :)

Regards,
Jerome Schneider

Rob De Vries a écrit :
> Hey Formidable boys and girls,
> 
> first: congratulations to Ameos: for me, formidable is the most amazing 
> ext. I've seen in a while. You have my vote for the ext. of the year.
> 
> 
> 
> It is now more than a week that I'm using formidable and I would like to 
> share my experiences as a beginner.
> 
> Formidable is for me a very typicale T3 'application'. It keeps on 
> amazing me how versatile it is, even for a non programmer like me, but 
> it has also a very steep lurning curve.
> 
> One of the reasons, and this is no complain, is the lack of good 
> documentation. I know this is a delicate subject and that Ameos is 
> working on this (there is the wiki, the knowledge base, the example 
> extensions and the reference documention) but still, it seems to me that 
> it just reflects only a tiny amount of the possebilities of Formidable.
> 
> For me, the demo extensions were the most usefull to see how things 
> work. I'm the type of guy who starts trying things to see what it gives 
> and after it works, I get an understanding why it works. "Monky see, 
> monky do" approche.
> I guess this counts for most of us, as I can tell of the questions in 
> this list.
> 
> So, for a beginner, the most usefull things to get a good boost-start 
> would be, and I qoute: documentlets.
> A list of snippets on how to do this or that. This could be very simpel 
> tasks like: how to send an email after filling out a form (how to style 
> the output of a mail) how to get information displayd on a page (not 
> only the list, but also a 'single' view), how to get information of 
> something based on a front-end user, etc ... For most of you very simple 
> things, for a beginner like me, not that obvious.
> 
> My idea of these snippets is very simple, they don't even need to be 
> 'working' examples as the demo ext. just a list of some examples (as in 
> the documentation). And we already have a very nice place for this: the 
> wiki.
> It will take a very tiny amount of time to place your own 'snippet' in 
> the wiki, It even don't need alot of explaining, just your code example 
> and a comment line or two will do.
> If this 'snippet' base grow, it will help us all tremendously, the more 
> examples, the less we all need to look for a sollution, the faster our 
> own productions will go and the more new people will start to use 
> formidable (who, in their turn will add more snippets, that will atract 
> more new people ... )
> 
> 
> For now, i'll keep on figuring things out with the information we have.
> Formidable is worth all the extra time trying, failing and trying back 
> agian.
> 
> tnx for your time reading this.
> 
> Rob
> 
>