Re: Using HTML to manage lists of objects

Wayne Johnson wrote:

I've been writing an application to do curriculum maping for a school using Pear QuickForm and DB. This application has several lists of objects. Lists of teachers, lists of classes, lists of ... I've noticed a common pattern in managing all these lists. One page that lists objects in the system with hyperlinks to another page that adds, modifies, replicates, or deletes that object. I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a better way to write these pages. Quickform is great for adding and modifying the data in an object, but the page that lists the objects seems pretty clunky. It also seems that I'm re-inventing the same thing over and over again. Anyone used QuickForm Controller for this sort of thing. I know it's designed for multi-page forms, but if one of these pages were a list of items? Surely someone else has done this sort of thing.

Take a look at DB_DataObject_Formbuilder (pear) and DB_DataObject_FormBuilder_Frontend [1]. Arne [1] http://www.reversefold.com/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=DB_DataObject_FormBuilder_Frontend