Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] HTML_QuickForm2-0.4.0 (alpha) Released.

Yay love seeing work continue on this project. I have yet to find another Form library that I enjoy using as much as this one. Keep up the great work! MS On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:31 AM, PEAR Announce <pear-dev@lists.php.net> wrote: > The new PEAR package HTML_QuickForm2-0.4.0 (alpha) has been released at > http://pear.php.net/. > > Release notes > ------------- > Milestone 4: port of HTML_QuickForm_Controller, group rules > > Major additions and changes >  * Includes a port of HTML_QuickForm_Controller. It is now possible to create >    multipage forms (wizards, tabbed forms, etc.) with HTML_QuickForm2 >  * It is now possible to leverage existing rules for group validation >    (see also request #12610) >  * Rule configuration redone, now an error for an incomplete or bogus >    configuration will be thrown immediately on adding a Rule rather than on >    validating with it. Rule::getConfig() will now return the complete >    configuration rather than a local part of it. > > Features added >  * It is possible to disable "intrinsic validation" for select >    elements (request #13088) >  * Checkboxes named 'foo[]' properly get their values from data sources >    (request #16806) >  * Arrays generated by Array Renderer for fieldsets and groups contain >    'type' keys (request #16937) >  * Added setElementTemplateForGroupClass() and setElementTemplateForGroupId() >    methods HTML_QuickForm2_Renderer_Default setting templates for grouped >    elements within a group of a given class or with a given id, respectively > > Bug fixes >  * E_NOTICE for an undefined index could be emitted when outputting >    a checkbox (bug #16816) > > Backwards compatibility issues >  * HTML_QuickForm2_Renderer_Default::setGroupedTemplateForClass() is >    deprecated >  * If you implemented custom Rules, you should rewrite them to conform >    to the new Rule configuration approach (this may require implementing >    custom mergeConfig() and setConfig() methods) and implement >    validateOwner() method instead of checkValue(). Old-style Rules will emit >    notices in 0.4.0 and will stop working completely in the next release. >  * Packaging changes: data/, docs/ and tests/ contents are installed without >    redundant subdirectories, e.g. quickform.css now resides in >    @data_dir@/HTML_QuickForm2 rather than >    @data_dir@/HTML_QuickForm2/data > > Package Info > ------------ > PHP5 rewrite of HTML_QuickForm and HTML_QuickForm_Controller packages. > >  This package provides methods to create, validate and render HTML forms. > >  Features: >   * Supports all form elements defined by HTML standard >   * Server-side validation, several common rules provided >   * Multipage forms (tabbed forms and wizards) >   * Pluggable elements, rules, renderers and renderer plugins > >  Major advantages over PHP4 version: >   * DOM-like API for building the form structure, new streamlined API for >     elements' values handling >   * Default rendering without tables (inspired by >     HTML_QuickForm_Renderer_Tableless) >   * Renderer plugins for elements with complex rendering needs >   * Ability to chain validation rules with 'and' and 'or' > > Related Links > ------------- > Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm2 >   Changelog: > http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm2/download/0.4.0 >    Download: > http://download.pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm2-0.4..0.tgz > > Authors > ------- > Alexey Borzov (lead) > Bertrand Mansion (lead) > > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- ----------------------------------------- Mark Steudel P: 206.375.7244 msteudel@gmail.com . : Work : . http://www.mindfulinteractive.com . : Play : . http://www.steudel.org/blog