[FLOW3-general] Embed forms for IRRE like editing?

[Sebastian Kurfürst]

Hey Tolleiv,

unfortunately there is no easy solution yet. However, the following are
the needed steps I think:

First, we'd need a new ViewHelper
<f:form.multipleObjects property="bars">, which could be used like so:

<f:form method="post" action="update" name="foo" object="{foo}">
    ...
    <f:form.textbox property="property" />
    ...
    <f:form.multipleObjects property="bars">
        <f:form.textbox property="property" />
    </f:form.multipleObjects>
    <f:form.submit value="Update" />
</f:form>

This ViewHelper would need to extend AbstractFormFieldViewHelper and
roughly need to do the following:

$i = 0;
$output = '';
foreach ($this->getValue() as $v) {
 1) Adjust fieldNamePrefix in ViewHelperVariableContainer, by appending:
    [bars][$i]
 2) override 'formObject' in ViewHelperVariableContainer to $v
 3) $output .= $this->renderChildren();
}
// reset formObject and fieldNamePrefix to old values
// I guess it would also need to output the identity of the objects in
// the loop...
return $output;


This should generate a nested array like:

foo[__identity] = ...
foo[property1] = ....
foo[bars][0][__identity] = ...
foo[bars][0][xy] = ...

Furthermore, make sure to try it out with the new trunk, where the
property mapper refactoring has landed.


Unfortunately I do not have time right now to implement this (still one
exam left for which I need to learn quite a bit...), but maybe somebody
wants to try out :-)

Greets,
Sebastian