[TYPO3-dev] FORM element

[Patrick Broens]

Steve Ryan wrote:
> Christoph Koehler wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 May 2007 10:44:58 -0500, Steffen Kamper <steffen at dislabs.de>
>> wrote:
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>>> sure i look to all existing activities too. I know Christian and Elmar
>>> worked on kind of Form Lib, i will ask them too.
>> It's Christoph :)
>> I took on that project last year and didn't have the time to finish it
>> or continue. I announced that on the ECT list a while back, so while
>> there is a form team, I am not able to work on it much more. We did some
>> work in that area but were reinventing the wheel.
>> I think the best solution would be to take something like
>> html_quickforms and implement a wrapper to create forms via TS and TCA
>> using it.
>> Feel free to ask for help or take the project over.
>>
>> Christoph
> Hi All,
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>   I've been working to extend tx_forms. Some questions raised by Elmar
> got me thinking.
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> I've preferred to stick with tx_forms rather than wrapping the pear
> libraries as it does most of what I want and I can modify the code
> anywhere I want.
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> I've tweaked the inheritance tree to work in with lib/div.
> I've tweaked the inheritance to tree to allow for arbitrary depths of
> nested objects.
> I've moved the single and multitag rendering stuff into decorator
> classes so as to keep the main hierarchy clean.
> I've started on adding form actions and event passing in the style of
> JSR252.
> I've added a TCAFactory to generate form structures from config. From
> the discussions here it seems another popular factory would be for the
> FORM object configuration.
> I've had a look at adding a new CObj TCAFORM. Just debug on the hook at
> the moment but I'm thinking along similar lines that one very accessible
> use of a form library would be a cObj wrapper.
> While we are at it I think TCALIST should drop out pretty easily.
> 
> http://svn.syntithenai.com/svn/t3ext/forms
Should be http://svn.syntithenai.com/svn/t3ext/tx_forms
> 
> Working demo but still very messy and incomplete.
I will have a look at it asap

Patrick
> 
> I've been hesitant to stick up my hand as life keeps getting in my way
> but a good reusable form library is very interesting to me so if there
> is way I can work in with other people that would be great.
> 
> Certainly
> 
> cheers
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> Steve Ryan
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