[TYPO3-dev] future of FORM

[Reinhard Führicht]

Am 2010-08-24 16:26, schrieb Christian Opitz - Netzelf:
> Hi list,
>
> i'm confused about which extension to use for form generation and
> handling. A while ago i was beginning to write an extension to
> formhandler that should serve as GUI to create and manage forms and
> fields [1][2]. But because the project was dependent of a job that took
> a while to start i did not work on it for a while.
>
> Now i'm working on it again and i'm thinking about changing it's
> behaviour from an ext for formhandler to a form manager that can export
> to several formats like tca, zend form (already working), FORM, HTML,
> formhandler configuration etc. BUT: I read about the FORM-project and
> that for it a wizard is planned. When thats true my extension would be
> more or less obsolete because i would center it arround this wizard and
> not write an own.
>
> Now my questions are: Are the updates on the FORM-project [3][4]? Or is
> this project obsolete and a spread compromise is to use powermail or
> formhandler? Do you see any sense in writing an form management module
> at all?
>
> [1]
> http://www.iks.hs-merseburg.de/~meinike/PDF/aa/bachelorarbeit_opitz.pdf
> (german only - sorry)
> [2] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-formhandlergui
>
> [3] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v4-form
> [4]
> http://typo3.org/development/sponsoring/list-of-sponsored-projects/new-form-object/
>
>
> Cheers,
> Christian

To make this discussion more vivid, maybe we could manage to set up a 
skype chat? What do you think about that and what would be a good time?

Regards,
Reinhard