[TYPO3-dev] future of FORM

[Reinhard Führicht]

Am 2010-08-24 21:26, schrieb Christian Opitz - Netzelf:
> Hi Ernesto,
>> I would say the FORM-project from Patrick is still the "way to go". He
>> has spend many hours of brainstorming about the issue already, and at
>> least the concept of the TypoScript part of the form handling sounds
>> very promising.
>>
>> Unfortunately the project was not finished, and Pat went on working on
>> other stuff and is currently very busy with other projects. But I would
>> welcome if we find a team to get that project rolling again.
>>
>> The end result should be an overworked FORM handling in TYPO3 core
>> (maybe for 4.6 or later, but maybe even for 4.5 if we find more
>> interested parties to work on it).
>>
>> I'll get in touch with Patrick and direct him to this thread.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ernesto
> Thank you for the insight - i would appreciate if the project would go
> on and i'm still very interested in a solution to easily manage forms.
> Reinhard - leader of formhandler-project - once wrote me (sorry for
> quoting without asking):
> "IMHO the most reasonable was, if all developers working on something
> with forms in TYPO3, would come together and negotiate a single core
> extension that provides the basic functionality and a good API for
> advanced needs. If we could get that there would be no need for so much
> people worrying about one and the same problem and we finally had a form
> handler thats fast, stable and powerfull." (Translated from german)
> +2
> Cheers,
> Christian

Thanks for reminding me about that. I really wanted to get in touch with 
all the form extension authors, but I somehow got busy and forgot about it.
I talked to Patrick during the t3dd09 about providing error checks and 
utility function in core to be used in form handling extensions, but 
this came to nothing too somehow.
It would be really cool to team up and try to provide at least some 
useful error checks in core. The new FORM object needs them, Formhandler 
needs them, Powermail needs them and any other form extension too.

I will send out an email to the extension authors and inform them about 
this thread and lets see what comes up.

Regards,
Reinhard