Kevin Waterson wrote:
> My proposal is for an ezcForm component.
> The ezcForm component would provide an interface to the creation
> of HTML form objects which may be rendered for use with templates.
Does it need to depend on the Template component?
> Each form element would be an object which whose properties would
> define how the form would be rendered.
> eg:
>
> <?php
> $form = new ezcForm;
>
> $form->setMethod('post');
>
> $form->setId('my_form_id');
>
> $form->setAction($url);
>
> $select = new ezcFormSelect;
> $select->options($array)
> ->setLabel('My Select')
> ->setId('my_select_id');
>
> $submit = new ezcFormSubmit;
> $submit->setValue('Click Me')
> ->setScript('onclick="do_some_js"');
>
> $form->render(array($select, $submit));
> ?>
How about CSS for the form? Also it should support different "renderers"
(HTML, templates, maybe smartphone forms?).
> Also proposed, is the ability to attach validators directly to
> to each object.
>
> <?php
> $txt = new ezcFormText;
> $text->setName="email")
> ->setId("email")
> ->setLabel('Enter Email')
> ->setRequired(true)
> ->setValidator(ezcFormValidateEmail);
> ?>
How is state being kept? If the user enters a wrong email address it
needs to appear in the textbox as it was when displaying the page again.
Also how would multi-page forms (wizards) be implemented?
> In this instance, ezcFormValidateEmail could be a call back to
> new ezcInputFormDefinitionElement(
> ezcInputFormDefinitionElement::REQUIRED, 'validate_email'
> )
Is it a good idea to depend on another component? (UserInput in this case).
> An ezcForm component will provide a comprehensive suite of
> easy to use form objects with an easy to use API. Forms will
> initially be defined insite a definition list, but other
> markup should not be hard to build in.
>
> Larson was working on something similar at some time in
> experimental, but after a quick chat on IRC he described his
> as overly complex.
>
> Any thoughts, ideas, objections, abuse is welcome.
>
> Kind regards
> Kevin
>
>
>
>
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Alexandru Stanoi
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