Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] HTML_Template_Flexy-0.9.2 (beta) Released.

A very old version of Flexy tried to use Quickforms directly to build forms. However it ran into a number of issues: a) The Heavy use of aliasing often broke, or was very clunky to deal with. b) It was almost impossible to deal with multiple forms on a single page. c) Validation was just to messy to deal with using flexy::validate="somerule" d) Almost all the forms I worked with needed to be visually laid out, so quickforms rarely solved a pure form solution for me. .... quite a few more (mainly revolving around the fact that Quickforms takes control of the input vars (_GET/_POST) etc. that eventually made integration too painfull for me.) In theory it is possible to replace the elements in the template with QF elements (eg. something like this.. $flexy->output($this, array( 'name' => $qf->getElement('name'), 'age' => $qf->getElement('get'), ).... In the end however, I normally use the HTML_Template_Flexy_Factory::*() methods to do most of what QF provides. I normally do Validation using Gtk_Validate_Manager, (http://devel.akbkhome.com/svn/index.php/akpear/Gtk_ValidateManager/) which is a manager that provides rule creation / association with Post vars etc, (and utilizes Validate::*) These are the code I wrote a long while ago, to automate form/database interaction to some degree (you still need to design the form in HTML) http://devel.akbkhome.com/svn/index.php/akpear/HTML_DataObject/DataObject/ The design of these is still a little messy however, but it does work. I dont use QF forms now, so I cant provide much more that a view that Flexy's Element object does most of the things that QF appears to provide (except validation).. it's up to you to decide how you wish to work.. - there is nothing stopping you from doing : {quickform.toHtml():h} in the template to use a pure quickform solution. Regards Alan Jacques wrote:

Hi my friends! I have a litle doubt about Template_Flexy_Elements and QuickForm. It´s possible to use only Template_Flexy_Elements (with server/client validations) to build my forms, or i need to use too the QuickForm? What is the best solution? Only Template_Flexy_Elements, only QuickForm ou QuickForm renderer with flexy? Jacques, from Brazil

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