Re: QuickForm and MVc

Don Fitzsimmons wrote: >Can HTML_QuickForm work in an MVC framework like Phrame. I use Phrame >and Smarty together a lot and I don't see how I could separate form >actions from normal actions using quickform. Has anyone on the list >used these two together? I'd say that using Smarty is not really MVC for a start so the first question you should ask yourself is : "Is using Smarty for MVC ok ?" and the answer would be no, because Smarty adds logic to your View so MVC is broken from the ground up :) But I don't see any problems in using QuickForm in an MVC pattern as its job is mostly related to the View. I have used QuickForm with Ismo and Sigma succesfully and been able to preserve a somewhat MVC compliant design. I don't know Phrame yet unfortunately. It might be more difficult to use HTML_QuickForm_Controller within another framework as QF_Controller already uses the _GET variables to control QuickForm's behaviour (that's one of the reasons why it was released as a separate package) and _GET are used by other frameworks to do the same with your application logic, so they might conflict. But with some care, it is feasible too. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam