Re: DBDOFB: Proposal for new configuration option

On 1/31/06, arnaud sellenet bodin <demental@free.fr> wrote: > > I see. I don't see that as being particularly useful for most > > use-cases. In fact, I can think of no real reason to have such a > > thing. If the connections must exist it doesn't make too much sense to > > use crossLinks in the first place... > > > > Then again, do understand your specific case, it just doesn't seem > > all that generally useful. I'd raher not include it for now as FB is > > too monolithic already. The next version (if it ever happens) will be > > much more modular and allow for new classes for different type of > > elements. I haven't had the time yet to finalize the API (I've barely > > started). If you're interested, I can show y ou the code so far. > > > > -- > > Justin Patrin > > > > -- > > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > Ok I understand, for sure if the next version will more flexible and > expandable > there's no reason to make the current version more and more heavycode... > > Anyway I'll try to implement this option to my dataObject sub-class > instead of hacking FB, to avoid bad surprises > upgrading to the next release of FormBuilder. > > Will it use the same API or will it be another package ? (formBuilder2 > ?) > No, it will be an entirely new API. It also shouldn't be bound to HTML_QuickForm or DB_DataObject, it will be a generic FormBuilder. At least, that's the idea. > I'd be really interested indeed to know more about the next version, > hopefully I could > help although I don't consider myself skilled enough yet to get > involved in the base structure > of such a package (sorry if my English is not clear). > You can get a tarball of my source here: http://pear.reversefold.com/FormBuilder2.tgz Or you can view the source online at: http://pear.reversefold.com/FormBuilder2/ Or you can view a working example at: http://pear.reversefold.com/FormBuilder2/example/ It's very limited, but it has a basic framework set up. Let me know what you think if you check it out. -- Justin Patrin