[TYPO3-dev] future of FORM

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Christian Opitz - Netzelf schrieb am 24.08.2010 16:26:

> 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/

For everyones information:

We have had a very interesting discussion on that matter via Skype this
week. The first result was the creation of a Forge project [1].

So now there is a team and a repository to "play with". First steps will
be to define the API on a high level. Reinhard is working on that and
we'll present that on our Wiki. Meanwhile Christian already have had
some ideas on the implementation. The team is also taking a look on how
other projects do it (e.g. Zend framework), so that are sure that we
stay on a correct track.

We want to make sure we get stuff done that can be included in release
4.5. So we will work in small steps and not start with some bloated API
which has no chance to be included in the core. We have a plan already
on how to approach it.

I can reveal already that there will be a nice validation API and a
captcha service which extensions can use and where captcha providers can
register themselves.

Stay tuned for more on that area!

Cheers,
Ernesto

[1] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v4-form-api