Re: HTML_Select
| From: | Klaus Guenther | Date: | Tue, 20 May 2003 12:02:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: HTML_Select | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.pear.dev |
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> Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:
>
> >>It does exist in pear/HTML_QuickForm/QuickForm/select.php
> >>Please enlighten me, what was PEAR community's view on redundant
> >>packages and forks?
> >
> >
> > Please, look at all the codes and historical packages.
> >
> > This package is a simple select generation class, which has nothing to
> > do with any others packages.
>
> Let me clarify: most of HTML_QuickForm_select's code is the same as old
> HTML_Select's.
> HTML_QuickForm_select *can* be used without loading all 70kb of
> HTML_QuickForm class.
>
> While I can see the use for a separate HTML_Select class, this will be a
> fork with *no* added value. A usage example for HTML_QuickForm showing
> how to use standalone select will be most welcome, though.
Thank goodness PEAR isn't made by a certain software corporation based in
Redmond. Simple elegance is important. I don't want to have to install
QuickForm if all I need is the select script. It's nice that PEAR is
modular.
Klaus