Re: thoughts on form building w/ or w/o DB_DataObject_FormBuilder

Bertrand Mansion wrote:

FormBuilder is aimed at rapid prototyping (thanks to DB_DO and QF) but also allow some nice customizations that are more than enough for most users. But if you need more complex stuffs, I think going directly with QF is more appropriate.

Thanks for the thoughts Bertrand! I was thinking about using QuickForm directly but if I do that I loose the features offered by FormBuilder: auto-filling from a db, populating <select>s from linked tables; auto processing of crosslinks and triplelinks (which means handling 3 or 4 tables at the same time) etc. On the other hand, using QuickForm directly gives really more flexibility (knowing that you can still access & manipulate the form when using FormBuilder). I will think a lot about this in the following days/weeks hoping that I find many common guidelines that can be used in a wide range of web applications. Regards, Norbert