[TYPO3-ect] Again: Forms library

[Elmar Hinz]

> about whether we are working at cross purposes here. I have to say that
> some the solutions in the TER are pretty impressive, my main issue has

I must have missed the many impressive ones. Could you name some keys that
provide a full functional form library apart from formidable?

> always been that they are locked into TYPO3 (with all it's quirks) and
> (due to the nature of the problem) very complex. Whereas pear projects

If complexity is bigger than writing PHP/HTML directly they are no a
solution.

> My problem therefore was how to best integrate qf with TYPO3. As
> mentioned I decided it would be nice to be able to reuse the TCA array:
> interpret the TCA for a given table and translate this to quickform.
> additional TS mimics TCA (so configurations are merged).

In cool there will be an object to access TCA finetuned by TS. It's called
TCAplus in the draft. That would match well. 

> The main problem I encountered was that the TS configuration becomes
> unwieldly and is not very readable. It's nice to be able to use the TCA

It quickly can take up a big part of the TS tree. You could keep it out from
the tree, still using the TS compiler and a highliting editor.

> The obsolete one :-) I haven't tried qf2 yet. According to the project
> page qf2 should be backwards compatible.
> 
> 
> As I said, I'd like to help find a practicable solution for this issue
> and I'm certainly be interested in taking the discussion further...
> Cheers,
> Simon

In a week or two cool will be at a point that, the TCAplus object is
availble. You could check it out how it works with your approach. If it
works I guess it only will need a small addon extension to connect it all.
Maybe it just needs some documentation or a small demo extension to run the
concept.

Regards

Elmar