>
> > I appreciate that a lot of what phplib has to offer
> > is provided by Midgard. The major exception seems to
> > be oohforms. Oohforms can be installed as a separate
> > component. Are you planning to provide equivalent
> > functionality using your own methods?
>
> Hmm, I wouldn't think so. In the near future, Midgard will have a
> foundation
> for installable packages, so things like oohforms can be prepackaged and
> just
> dropped in. For the time being, you can install oohforms as you would
> normally
> before Midgard (in the file system) and use it from there. You can still
> include
> files with PHP when you use Midgard.
The problem is that currently the behaviour
of some of the built-in forms in Midgard is
pretty basic. That's ok if you assume they
are only to be used by a qualified administrator.
For example, one or two people with
administrative authority over a site may use
the 'New Person' form in Group Admin to add
a person, and exercise due caution to make sure
they get it right. But if I want to open up
the privilege to enter new persons to others,
now I have to worry about all the ways they
might introduce errors into the record. So
instead of using or extending the code for
the existing forms, I pretty much have to create
it from scratch using the assistance of some
suitable validation library routine like oohforms.
My main concern is to make sure, as far as this
is possible, that I don't put some work into this
area only to discover that I didn't understand
what's planned for the Midgard distribution.
Paul
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