Can you create an enhancement ticket for each issue?

Thanks,
Fabien

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avorobiev wrote:
> Also in the Form framework we need built-in:
> 
> - Required asterisk.
> Today we can do it with overloading BaseForm and
> sfWidgetFormSchemaFormatter (look at
> http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs/browse_thread/thread/4c81264521f8bc60),
> but it's not a clean way... If we have possibility to set asterisk as
> a css class on the parent html-container, or as a class on the input|
> select tag, that will be good!
> 
> - Field groups.
> It often use in form decoration. If we have $form->render() function
> why we can't use it for rendering form field groups?
> In the form class we would set groups for example so:
> 
> $this->setWidgets(array(
>       'fieldGroupName1' => array(sfWigget classes),
>       'fieldGroupName2' => array(some other sfWigget classes),
>       and other sfWigget classes without field group
> )
> 
> 
> On Feb 5, 6:02 pm, Tom Boutell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Symfony 1.2 offers several levels of control over templates for forms.
>> In practice, though, only two are useful:
>>
>> 1. echo $form
>>
>> Handy for quick and dirty testing and for situations where a pure and
>> simple columnar layout enhanced a bit by CSS is acceptable. But all of
>> the rows have to be styled in exactly the same way because there is no
>> individual CSS access to them.
>>
>> 2. echo $form['fieldname']->renderLabel(),
>> $form['fieldname']->render(), $form['fieldname']->renderErrors()
>>
>> Allows complete control over the HTML surrounding the row. But you
>> pretty much have to do it for the entire form, or else do something
>> ungainly like:
>>
>> while (($key, $dummyl) = each($form))
>> {
>>   if ($key == 'foo')
>>   {
>>     special handling;
>>   }
>>   else
>>   {
>>     $key->renderRow();
>>   }
>>
>> }
>>
>> But what about $form->render(), which can accept a hash of widget
>> names and HTML attributes for them? What about $form->renderRow(),
>> which can also do that?
>>
>> The problem is that both of these methods only accept attributes for
>> the widget control itself (the 'input' element, for instance). And
>> this is not especially useful, because what we typically want to do is
>> influence the layout of controls relative to one another. But we don't
>> have any influence over the <tr> or <li> elements the input elements
>> are embedded in. So we're stuck going all the way to the lowest level.
>>
>> I believe ->render() and ->renderRow() would be much more useful if
>> they accepted attributes intended for the formatting element that
>> contains the row, not just the attribute itself.
>>
>> Then you could write:
>>
>> $form->render(array('editors' => array('rowAttributes' =>
>> array('class' => 'floating-column'))));
>>
>> ... To set a class on the <li> that encloses that particular row,
>> allowing meaningful influence over the layout.
>>
>> Similar provisions for labelAttributes and errorsAttributes would also
>> be helpful.
>>
>> (It would be nice if grandparent selectors worked in CSS, but they
>> don't - you really can't look "up the tree" and change the layout of
>> the element that your input element is contained in. So classes on the
>> input element are not very useful in laying out a form.)
>>
>> --
>> Tom Boutell
>>
>> www.punkave.comwww.boutell.com
> 
> > 
> 


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