Please see my comments below.
>Jon,
>
>> One guy hacking it, is probably going to be more efficient
>> with his own stuff.
>
>I immensely disagree with this statement (of course, I wrote the API. <g>) I
>think even individuals greatly benefit from qForms. I don't really equate
>Fusebox and qForms, because qForms isn't telling you how to do your work,
>it's helping to do your work faster. I consider it a RAD API for dealing
>with forms.
>
>For example, take the following lines of code:
>
>oForm = new qForm("frmExample");
>oForm.required("name,contactVia");
>oForm.email.createDependencyTo("contactVia", "email");
>oForm.email.validateEmail();
>oForm.address1.createDependencyTo("contactVia", "postal");
>oForm.city.createDependencyTo("contactVia", "postal");
>oForm.state.createDependencyTo("contactVia", "postal");
>oForm.zipCode.createDependencyTo("contactVia", "postal");
>oForm.contactVia.enforceDependency();
>
>With the above 9 lines of JavaScript, I just wrote a form that does the
>following:
>
>- Prevents duplicate submissions (i.e. the submit button becomes disabled
> after the browser sends the request to the server.)
>- The "name" and "contactVia" fields are both required.
>- If a value is entered for the "email" field, it's checked to make sure
> the e-mail address appears to be syntactically correct.
>- If the "contactVia" field is equal to "postal", then the "city", "state"
> and "zipCode" fields all become required.
>- If the "contactVia" field is equal to "email" then the e-mail field
> becomes required.
>- The form elements can be of any type. The majority of qForm methods are
> element agnostic--meaning they work with any type of form elements. This
> means the "contactVia" element could be a text, hidden, select, radio,
> checkbox, etc.
Nice!
Would it solve js problems I described in the following thread?
http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=messages&threadid=25711&forumid=4
Thanks.
>
>Granted, it means you may spend less time writing and testing a bunch of
>JavaScript, but I'd rather be working on the UI aspects of my project than
>writing the same kind of functionality over and over.
>
>- Dan
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