[TYPO3-dev] 4.2 and the form wizard

[Patrick Broens]

Hi Daniel,

The new Form Wizard will be drag & drop based, so if you like to have an 
input field, you simply drag it into the form in the wizard. You can 
change the order of all the form items easily by dragging them to the 
right spot in the form wizard. When clicking on an item, the properties 
field will adapt where you can change the default configuration for an 
element.

A lot of new features will be introduced, like having fieldsets in 
fieldsets, something that is currently not available in the Form Wizard. 
Also a datepicker, more validation options and other stuff will be 
implemented. You can even add your own stylesheet to it in the backend, 
so the form will look exactly look how it will be displayed in the 
frontend, similar to htmlarea where you can use your own stylesheet as well.

But it's not only the Form Wizard which needs a facelift. Also the FORM 
cObject, which you are partly referring to. Database storage has nothing 
to do with the Form Wizard, but with the cObject. Validation will be 
done server side in the future.

I've looked at a lot of solutions to make the output as general and 
stylable as possible. Two solutions I've found where worth trying it and 
I've eventually decided to go for the solution published by Cameron 
Adams on Sitepoint [1] to make an ordered list in which all items 
reside. There is also a solution by The man in blue [2] to put each 
element within it's corresponding label tag, which makes the code even 
more cleaner, but that's not quite what the label is for and you always 
need the label tag.

So the styling can be completely done using CSS. This is currently also 
possible, but in a lesser way.

Patrick

[1] http://www.sitepoint.com/article/fancy-form-design-css/
[2] http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/InForm/index.htm

Daniel Pötzinger wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I just recognized that there is a new form wizard planned.
> 
> Is it possible to have a look at the features of this wizard?
> Since we are looking for a nice form wizards and started developing our 
> own - it may be interesting what is offical planned.
> 
> Concrete questions:
> - is the form output more flexible (e.g. have the possibility to have a 
> right/left/ wide column for the input fields)?
> - is it planned to have a database log (like mailformplus)?
> 
> Maybe there is the possibility to support on that issue.
> 
> Thanks and greetings