Re: Refactoring Validate package to provide

Helgi Þormar wrote:

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.

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.

Thank you both for pointing me to I18N. AFAICS "regions" were not in I18Nv2, although "regions" is a rather loose term. Anyway, I've spent some files Mike's way to add to the package.

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 :-)

Validate also does country-based validations, so maybe the 2 packages are on each other's toes for certain things? Maybe Validate should provide a wrapper around I18N? -Philippe