Re: RE: Form.php - why returnStart ?

Hello Urs, On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 16:18 +0100, Urs Gehrig wrote: > > dear bertrand > > > Reading the code of that class, I couldn't figure out why there were start > > and returnStart functions ? I may be mistaken but I think these two > ... my intetions with the return*() functions in the HTML_Form class was to > use them together with templates, where you do not want to print out the > form fields directly as html, but want to return a string variable. > > > functions could be put in just one ? Or maybe I am wrong and then > ... this should allow most flexible use for many different applications. > > > In the code, this supposes I have created a table and I want my header > > beside my text field (which is how it is most of the time) but if > ... that's probably, where you begin to limit the class to some certain > applications. i have never been so flexible and fast designing forms as > with this class ;) You could be even more fast if you could build forms from XML descriptions like I do. Also, mixing output functionality with core representation of a form sucks IMHO. There should be configurable and extensible faces/frontends/etc. -- Stay tuned, MhZ mailto:mookid@sigent.ru ----------- "I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens." -- Woody Allen