[ANNOUNCEMENT] HTML_QuickForm2-2.0.0beta1 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package HTML_QuickForm2-2.0.0beta1 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- Feature additions * Added 'email' Rule (request #16906) * Added Stub Renderer which does minimal form processing. Useful for forms containing Javascript that are output manually. * It is easier to customize client-side validation: all methods of qf.Validator are public, CSS class names for validation status are kept in validator's property. * Test suite now properly runs from SVN checkout and under PHPUnit 3.6 * PHPDoc cleanup, added @method annotations to Container Bug fixes * Fixed running tests for elements separately (bug #19039) * Fixed errors removal in client-side validation (bug #19063) * IDs for autogenerated elements no longer start with underscores, default form output no longer contains empty <label> tags (bug #19097) * HTML_QuickForm2_Controller_Action_Jump defaults to using $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] for host name (bug #19216) * Group::setValue() now properly allows fluent calls (bug #19307) * Container::validate() will now return false if any contained element has an error message set * Added abstract render() method to Node and abstract reset() to Renderer * DefaultAction element no longer contains invalid 'width' and 'height' attributes, 'src' attribute defaults to 'data:' URL * 'Live' client-side rules run only once on changing the form field, prevent errors when form HTML contains links Backwards compatibility issues * Items marked deprecated in version 0.6.0 are now removed 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, provides several custom elements * Server-side and client-side validation, several common rules provided * Multipage forms (tabbed forms and wizards) * Pluggable elements, rules, renderers and renderer plugins Major advantages over PHP4 version: * Most of the package's functionality is covered by unit tests * 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' * Client-side validation can run "live" on changing the form fields, validation errors are displayed near the fields instead of in alert() Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm2 Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm2/download/2.0.0beta1 Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm2-2.0.0beta1.tgz Authors ------- Alexey Borzov (lead) Bertrand Mansion (lead)