[TYPO3-mvc] FLOW3 Form API backport

[Bastian Waidelich]

Hi all,

thank you for the great interest and feedback regarding the "FLOW3 Form 
Project" [1] and my session yesterday @ T3DD12 [2].

As expected the question came up whether this will be available for 
TYPO3 v4 too.
As much as I would like to use this myself in Extbase, I won't take over 
the initiative for a backport because I don't have the time to ensure a 
steady maintenance at the moment.
But of course you are free to do that and I would happily coordinate & 
support the first steps. There are some issues that are on my mind 
though regarding a possible backport:

- Please let us know if you plan s.th. like this, so we could team up

- Checkout the "v4 Form Project" Patrick Broens created and which has 
been integrated into v4.6 of TYPO3 [3] - possibly it already does 
exactly what you need!

- It should be *really easy* to keep the two branches in sync. So the 
backport should be (semi-)automatic. Check out the Backporter we created 
for Fluid - I added some basic HOWTO to the forge project [4]

- Last but not least: We're currently working on a possibility to make 
(some) FLOW3 packages work in TYPO3 v6. Please get in touch if you have 
some ideas in this area - maybe we can get rid of this annoying 
backporting eventually.

best,
Bastian


[1] 
http://typo3.org/news/article/flow3-11-sneak-preview-form-api-and-builder/
[2] http://bwaidelich.github.com/Slides.FLOW3-Form-Project/
[3] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v4-form
[4] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/package-backporter


-- 
Bastian