[TYPO3-dev] 4.2 and the form wizard
Ingmar Schlecht
ingmar at typo3.org
Mon Aug 27 18:30:49 CEST 2007
Hi Patrick,
I put your mail as a project description on a wiki page (linked from fro
4.2 Development wiki page):
http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Form_Wizard_for_TYPO3_4.2
cheers
Ingmar
Patrick Broens schrieb:
> 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
>
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