Re: RE: Form.php - why returnStart ?

Bertrand Mansion wrote: > The idea of faces is quite interesting and I think there should be a way to > link template classes and form classes. It is not the case today and it > makes Form.php not very useful for me. I am pretty sure that soon somebody > will get rid of returnStart or Start in the class, that is why I can't use > that class. http://www.redsys.de/form.html (300k, use IE for all features) Mapping XML to addElement() is quite simple, check the PHPLib CVS for an old DTD. http://www.redsys.de/flow_layout.html (60k, JavaScript code is broken) I've been playing with form + layout quite a long time. Finally I gave it up at this point. Alexander Aulbach told me some very intresting ideas on how it could be done better with "self-modifiing" templates. As I don't want to spend more time on the issue I did not follow his ideas. His system is quite powerful but comes close to XSLT. If someone's interested he should contact Alex, ask me for the email if neccessary. Mulptiple page forms (wizards/assistants) will follow as soon as <gtext> and <gbutton> are finished (http://docs.roxen.com/roxen/2.1/creator/graphics/gtext.tag). I need that to generate the buttons. Those of you that understand german can have a look at the ordering process on http://ulf.dev.netuse.de/shop/ . It's using the very first version of the assistant stuff. I'll rewrite the old code complete and I expect it to become relatively small and handy. Jeroen Laarhoven is currently revising my code, finding lots of flaws and bugs. I'm looking forward for his comments. He needs a slightly different form engine and his first inputs have been quite intresting. When will it be finished? I hope I can manage to finish my work on the form stuff as soon as possible as I already spent too much time on it, I already broke the roadmap of my next project; say two or three weeks. Ulf