The biggest problem of a table widget IS the separation between what belongs to which layer: the View, the Model, or the Controller. This separation is very important and quite difficult to achieve. This is the same kind of problem I tried to solve with the new form framework.
Fabien -- Fabien Potencier Sensio CEO - symfony lead developer http://www.sensiolabs.com/ http://www.symfony-project.com/ Sensio Labs Tél: +33 1 40 99 80 80 Ian P. Christian wrote: > weaverryan wrote: >> Well I don't have a lot of input for you - but I thought i'd chime in >> with words of encouragement. I too would love to see this - I hate >> tables and I hate having to do things like alternate their row colors. >> However, it's often a great way to display data and seems like it >> should be just as easy as basically echoing an object. >> >> I'd be happy with just the basic functionality at first - not as >> worried about the edit | details | delete links. > > Well, if it's going to get done - it's probably worth thinking about > these kind of things to start with. > > The reason I'm working with the idea that you loop though your data, and > addRow()s , rather then just binding your results is that often you want > to get at related items in your resultset, or format them , and trying > to put that into some kinda markup woudl be too hard. > > Im' not sure if that makes *any* sense, so her.e.. > > > foreach($users as $u) > { > $rowdata = array( > 'user' => $u->getUsername(), > 'name' => $u->getFirstName() . ' ' . $u->getLastName(), > 'count' => $u->getSomething()->getCount(), > ); > } > > There there's 2 examples of where the data binding is not as simple as a > single table column to data column mapping. > > > However, the problem comes in in maintaining a good separation between > data and view.... This kind of logic is perhaps too complicated for the > View, but probably shouldn't be in the action code... > > What if you wanted to have the user name in bold? What if you wanted to > turn it into a link, where does the logic for linking sit? > > I'm mostly thinking aloud here btw, I'm not sure I'm going to have time > to develop this for my current project after all... > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-devs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
