On 16/03/07, Zbigniew Lukasiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/15/07, Mario Minati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For me that is nothing that should be part of FormFu (as it's concentrated on
> Forms) but maybe of LayoutFu (which could connect closely to FormFu).
The most common complaint about HTML::Widget was that it breaks the
division between the Controller and the View - by realizing layout in
the Controller. We have the various templating languages that work
for layout quite well and I don't think we need another one. But we
do need some sane way of delegating the layout functions from FormFu
to the templating system. This was discussed quite extensively here -
but still I don't see any adequate answer to this issue. What I would
propose is a two way approach - first you should be able to start with
just using [% form %] in the template for the page and [% form.css %]
in the template for CSS and get some sane layout. Then there should be
a way to gradually move parts of what [% form %] generates into the
template - so that if you are not happy with the generated HTML you
can replace it gradually chunk by chunk.
okay, but I don't this is what John was refering to with
"more general system for creating blocks and page regions"
Regarding what you describe - you need to come up with a suggested
API, because I don't know what you mean by "replace it gradually chunk
by chunk".
What do you actually want to be able to do?
There are currently several ways you can work.
#1
[% form %]
#2
To allow a designer to rearrange fields or change attributes, define
the form fields in a config file, and let them edit that.
If you want to make it as simple as possible for them, have a seperate
config file for just the fields, and use a different config file they
don't have access to for form options, field constraints, etc.
#3
To edit the XHTML - each project has its own copy of the 'root'
directory containing the TT templates - edit them, that's what they're
there for.
#4
Render each section chunk-by-chunk with the likes of
[% f.start_form %]
[% f.hidden_fields %]
[% f.end_form %]
[% f.field('foo') %]
etc
What else could you want? ;)
Carl
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