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Based on my experiences with CForms, I have to say that I am very
frustrated. Yet at this point we are committed. I think something
that would greatly reduce my frustrations as well as other potential
users is a full soup to nuts explanation of how to set up forms for
your existing application from scratch. Next, and possibly just as
important, how to use CForms to do tag management like del.ico.us and
Flickr. There should be three tracks depending on what you bind your
form to. I'm not the guy to do it because I am completely lost and I
can't seem to make heads or tails of where I am in the process or what
is going wrong. Now, as to improvements to forms, there are some things that are absolutely necessary in order to make use of CForms. First, is a special type of sitemap. An extension, if you will, that automatically adds the matchers necessary to resolve the _javascript_ resources instead of relying on people to set that up themselves. It would also include the declarations for the CForm specific generators/selectors/serializers/transformers/etc. Additionally, there are two ways to set up forms depending on whether AJAX is enabled or not. Typically you have a generator followed by a transformer. Why not make one forms generator that handles that for you (i.e. auto-chains the necessary transformations right after the source is generated ala JX script)? Also there is a transformation followed by a choice of serializer. Again, why not have a forms serializer that takes care of the final transformation and choice of serializer for you? It took me a week of trial and error to figure out why things were only partially working on an upload form. I finally have it working, but the AJAX enabled portion is not doing its job right. There is more trial and error and I don't have another week to futz with it. At this point, I'm going to have to give up on doing things the CForms way and hack together something that is far less elegant but I know will work. At least I will be able to report progress. I'm sharing these observations in the hopes that we can avoid having more folks as frustrated as me. --
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