Hi Steven, Is there any link to this? I'm currently looking at building a hCard builder for Drupal that reads the fields from the Profile module, and generates a select list of these fields that can be mapped to XHTML types for a hCard.
This plugin sounds perfect, because for the admin interface I want to use jQuery for the interface so you can build up lots of mapped profile fields dynamicly. You can read about my idea here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/1898#comment Also, is this module a replacement for fields in Drupal, or an extention of them? Thanks, Tane On 11/23/06, Steven Wittens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi gang, (semi off-topic..) > > I just released a rather cool bit of PHP code inspired by jQuery. > > In Drupal (drupal.org, CMS), our form structures (which govern user > interaction) are built up as big trees of objects (group boxes, > textfields, checkboxes, buttons, etc.). These arrays are a powerful > tool to work with, as it becomes easy to insert new features in the > middle of a form, for example to add 3rd party modules to the mix. > They also help separate structure from user content. > > Unfortunately, large tree structures can be cumbersome to use because > you need to iterate over elements all the time. Sound familiar? Just > like jQuery makes the clunky DOM elegant, my tool, fQuery, allows you > to do use a CSS-like syntax to query the big arrays. It works like a > charm and makes writing certain kinds of code much easier. > > So, if you want all fieldsets on a page that are collapsible, you use > "fieldset.collapsible". Finding textfields inside fieldsets becomes > "fieldset > textfield". Checkboxes with a keyword matching in their > label? "checkbox[#title*=keyword]". > > Implementing a jQuery like query system has opened up a whole new way > of dealing with forms in Drupal. It's a really cool technique. The > best part is that it's relatively easy to adapt the code to custom > structures, as the parsing is separate from the operators. It's easy > to insert your own tree structure and define custom operators (e.g. > filesystem queries where you use pathnames + filename meta data). > > Has anyone else tried something like this? The jQuery architecture is > definitely useful beyond DOM. I'm thinking if a bunch of people get > together, we could make such custom "xQuery" systems easy to develop > and use. I guess XPath is something similar, but I honestly don't > know how much it's used ;). > > Steven Wittens > > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
