Re: [Pear][QuickForm][DB_DataObject] Architecture

Hi! Matthias H. Risse wrote:

To get an overview of what I will talk/ask about I would love you to check out the following UML-like-class-diagram: http://progress.risse.org/pear/uml_class1.gif I would like to know what you guys think about this approach or if you have any additions to it?

I think that your diagram is wrong. Smarty does not use QuickForm, but is instead used by an appropriate QuickForm Renderer. I assume here that you haven't broken anything in "CustomQuickFormClass".

Furthermore my instance of the derived "CustomQuickFormClass" doesnt work as xpected. After adding my custom code to the constructor I added parent::HTML_QuickForm(..params..), so usually everything with the derived Object should be okay, but unfortunately QuickForm doesnt do all the rule_checks I added in the constructor. Why?

You didn't show any code, but I must admit that you usually call parent constructor before doing any of your custom code.

I read in the src, that I could register a custom "callback"-function, but I dont really know if this would help, because I dont know what the "callback"-function is xpected to be and do.

It is difficult to understand out of context what part of source you've read.

Any help would be heavily appreciated.

I suggest you look at these packages: http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject_FormBuilder http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm_Controller