[TYPO3-ect] The Big Plan II

[Michael Scharkow]

Jan-Hendrik Heuing wrote:
>> We can get inspiration from
>> http://www.symfony-
>> project.com/content/book/page/templating_form_helpers.html
> 
> True, but you do not mean having it as alternative to configure forms in
> this way? As long as having it optional to the configuration for whole
> forms, I like the idea. You can easily add forms to extensions
> individually without really having the while config. 

I rather liked it as the low-level way to build *any* form, both with a 
TCA or TS rendering class as well as "manual" forms in extensions. So I 
don't see it as an alternative to configure forms, but to actually 
output them. Tell me what kind of input element you *can't* flexibly 
build with that API.

And concerning the PHP snippets: I do like them, since the are fast to 
type and powerful in usage. That's a matter of debate between purists 
and pragmatists. Why invent yet another template language when PHP 
essientially was built as a template language. What I hate about the 
snippets are the print and echo statements, which should rather be implicit.

Cheers,
Michael