Re: Quickform Renderer

<jeroen@terena.nl> wrote : > Hi, > > I was just wondering how the development on the Quickform Renderer is > going and if I can test anything yet? There are already a few renderers available in CVS. At the moment, you will need to checkout the cvs version if you want to test them. Let me know if this is ok with you. The renderers available are the following: - Default : This renderer uses the same kind of rendering as the one that was available in previous QuickForm versions. This way, backward compatibility is ok. - Array : This is actually the renderer that will output an array representation of the QuickForm content. It is similar to the toArray() method and is actually called when toArray() is called. The only difference with previous toArray() method is that every element gets a numeric index in the array. Previous version was a bit harder to parse. - ITX : This renderer uses the HTML_Template_ITX package. It works by looping through a 'qf_main_loop' using styles defined in other blocks. There is a possibility to attach an element to a style block. I have also made an ITX renderer that is more low level than the looping one but I am still testing it. It works differently: it uses placeholders for each elements in the form. Then, when it finds a placeholder, it replaces it by a parsed style block. It allows for very weird presentation, forms with horizontal layout, forms alternating comments and widgets... I haven't committed it yet but I can send it to you along with an example if you want. I am waiting for Alexey Borzov to give me his opinion as he is the one who wrote the first ITX renderer. If you have some time to test it, let me know. I'll send to you a few examples. I would be happy to know your opinion about both ITX implementations. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam