[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
This is interesting. I can certainly see the benefits in this.
> 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.
Installing it in the FS will not duplicate work now and will
be the easiest way to deploy phplib, I think. The packaging
system, when available, will permit installation in the
midgard database in an easy fashion.
Bye,
Emile
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