It would be helpful to allow as much of the formatting as possible to be defined by
Style Sheets to make the forms customizable.
At 12:30 PM 1/4/01 +0000, Paul Johnston wrote:
>Well, I am enjoying reading your responses. It's very good to get some kind
>of feedback (I'll have a look at databaseblocks but I haven't a clue what it
>is!).
>
>The thing I am working on now is to use the database to hold certain
>information, and to let HTML default as much as possible. So (using a CF
>structure as a v. simple db):
>
><!--- create the form structure --->
><cfset tpform = StructNew()>
>
><!--- insert name field --->
><cfset tpform.name = StructNew()>
><cfset tpform.name.position = 1>
><cfset tpform.name.type = "text">
>
>This code would say "Put a text field with the title "Name" (defaults to
>name of structure key) into the form with name "tpform". Let HTML handle
>the defaults (ie size = 40) or give preset defaults that can be changed, and
>the output is:
>
><table>
><form...>
><tr>
> <td>Name</td>
> <td><input type="text" name="name"></td>
></tr>
><tr>
> <td colspan="2"><input type="submit"></td>
></tr>
></form>
></table>
>
>Simple form with a submit button by default etc... ! May even be sensible to
>default all the possible attributes to something and allow the defaults to
>be created by the user!
>
>Then if you add any more structure keys to the structure "tpform.name" (ie
>like tpform.name.value) it will insert this to the form as an attribute to
>that field.
>
>Works well for type="text" and type="dropdown" (ie select) and haven't got
>much further.
>
><waffle>
>
>Of course, you can extract the data from a DB or from XML and put it into a
>structure format to output the form and then you have a form stored in a
>database.
>
>If you also allow the user to create the table the form goes in...
>
></waffle>
>
>Don't want to go into detail, but what you can see is that you can produce a
>very flexible HTML form system that can be created on the fly from a
>database (and therefore produced from a webpage so that a client can create
>their own form...)
>
>Anyway, tell me what you think!
>
>Paul
>
>PS The bare bones are there for this, I just haven't uploaded the files
>anywhere yet!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Phillip Churvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 8:22 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Re: Custom Tag for creating Forms...
>
>
>Take a look at DatabaseBlocks, guys! Download the new Beta we just
>uploaded early this morning, not the commercial release (some bugs).
>
>Enjoy!
>
>At 03:36 PM 1/3/01 +0000, you wrote:
>>This may sound a little bit odd, but I am surprised that I can't find such
>a
>>tool.
>
>--SNIP!--
>
>Respectfully,
>
>Adam Phillip Churvis
>Productivity Enhancement, Inc.
>
>Publishers of the CommerceBlocks line of
>modular ColdFusion development tools
>
>Website: http://www.commerceblocks.com
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Phone: 770-446-8866
>
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