Re: Alternative to Quickforms - Not Use Tables

Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello, > > on 03/05/2008 08:22 PM Stephen said the following: >> Subject says it. >> >> Is there an open source class for forms that provides for the use of CSS >> for the layout of forms? > > You may want to try this forms generation and validation class. It comes > with a vertical layout plug-in. By default it uses tables, so you do not > have to hardcode widths to make field rows and label columns align, but > you can override the default templates and set them to use tableless HTML. > > http://www.phpclasses.org/formsgeneration > > Take a look at the test_auto_layout_form.php example. > I knew it! I was going to suggest phpclasses. Also, depending upon what you do in your apps, consider a framework. There are many to choose from. I have evaluated several and prefer cakephp. Normally you won't use php to build the form but use html templates. -Shawn