dude, you are missing some cool PEAR libraries which will definitely make your life easier in form processing and writing
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:07 +0300, Al-Faisal El-Dajani wrote: > Hey guys, > Until three months ago i was working on a web development framework > called OpenACS. One of the things i loved about it is the extensive > API they had for building everything. Now, the PHP API is amazing, but > there are things that sometimes i wish they had like OpenACS. For > instance with OpenACS, you rarely wrote any HTML at all, using methods > like ad_form to build forms, or template::list to build lists that > show data with ability to paginate (show data on multiple pages) and > to sort by column name. Such things are not available with PHP, > because it is a scripting language and not a development framework. I > was thinking of trying to do something similar to PHP, because god > knows how much i hate writing forms and dropdown lists and stuff like > that :). > > Anyway, i attached a file i wrote which should clarify the idea. It is > a _very_ small version of what ad_form can do, but just to get the > idea through. It contains the URL to the documentation of ad_form and > what it does. > > My questions are: > 1) What do you think of the idea? > 2) Is it really useful to have such a thing? does it solve/ease any > current problems? > 3) Would the Jordanian PHP community and the PHP community at large > benefit from such a thing? > > Thanks in advance. > > PS: I already sent it to the mailing list before i remembered that we > moved to Google groups. Apologies for the double e-mail. > > > -- > Al-Faisal El-Dajani > Tel: +962-7-88 719 685 > P.O Box: 140056 > 11814 Amman, Jordan > > May the source be with you > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jordan PHP Users Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP http://Jolug.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
