* Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011016 16:49]: > I'm just bored with html forms. Seems like I do this kind of > project too often -- read a record, post, validate, update... Even > with good templating and code reuse between projects I still feel > like I spend a lot of time re-inventing the (my) wheel. Will an > application framework bring me bliss? I'm sure this is common type > of project for many people. What solutions have you found to make > this easy and portable from project to project?
An application framework *can* bring you bliss -- but like a lot of solutions that do a lot you need to buy into how it does things or hope that it's flexible enough for you to change it. In addition, a framework should be able to encourage reuse because you can concentrate on the interesting things (what is the data? how does it act?) rather than the boring things (security, user/group management, templating stuff). The boring things are there to be used, but they're a given. Good frameworks should IMO also make it easy to package up the interesting things and keep them separate from one another, so you can run as many code-test iterations as you need in your development environment, bundle up the interesting code (object definitions, schemas, business logic, display logic) and install it to the production environment without much hassle. Chris PS - (plug plug) OpenInteract has as of 1.30 a new module (OpenInteract::CommonHandler) to make the typical search/display/edit/remove functinonality extremely easy. -- Chris Winters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Building enterprise-capable snack solutions since 1988.
