Re: Form display and processing module?

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Database abstraction has always been a sticky point. I am clearly one of the main anti-abstraction folks around. ext/dbx never caught on. If PDO can do a better job then maybe it will one day be shipped with PHP. Some very simple rules for things that automatically disqualify you from being part of the core of PHP: 1. Do you consider yourself a framework? 2. Do you spit out HTML? 3. Do you have a non-trivial RINIT/RSHUTDOWN function? 4. Is your extension likely to be used by very few PHP users? If you don't have an emphatic No to each of these, at best you can try to get into the default PEAR packages that ship with PHP. And as you have no doubt noticed we have been trying hard to reduce the amount of stuff in the core and put a much stronger emphasis on PEAR and PECL.

Great, thanks for the context.

When people get more used to PEAR or PECL dependencies for PHP applications, things will improve.

Independent of whatever happens with form generating extension, this I emphatically agree with! David