Re: Refactoring Validate package to provide valid data

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 16:25 -0700, Ian Eure wrote: > On Monday 02 May 2005 04:18 pm, Philippe Jausions wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > How many countless times have you created a form with standard input > > fields such as country, state/province and alike? > > > > Since the Validate package provides validation methods, I think it would > > be good to have it (or a sister package) return lists of valid data that > > could be used in a QuickForm or other. > > > > (snip) > > > > What do you think? > > > I think it's a good idea, though the final word on countries/states/etc > probably belongs in I18Nv2. IIRC, it also has the names translated into > different languages, which solves the l10n issue. > > I'd like to see it, but I suspect that it will get relegated to a custom > channel instead of accepted into PEAR. I18Nv2 already has this stuff, as in all the countries in different languages (could be improved, i.e. more translations) and I even think Mike has regions and country numbers and maybe even region numbers. We might want to spin of those things into separated packages like we are doing with Validate so people won't have to install the whole thing just to get one part of I18Nv2, and of course I'm not talking about splitting it so we have 1x package per locale :-) Also note the "might", so I'm not saying we should do it, just consider it ;) - Helgi