I also think it would be very important the input from the community, so we can have a admin generator according to the needs of the community, who has been using symfony for many years.
Also knowing the features that will be developed is good so we can contribute in some features, because with git it's very easy to collaborate in the software development. Thanks! P.D. More javascript features would be great :) On Jul 19, 12:25 pm, Daniel Lohse <[email protected]> wrote: > It might be a bit early but I'll chime in regardless. ;-) > > Yes, a class-based admin generator would definitely be better than all that > autogenerated (and almost always same-looking) output of the current one. > (New, Edit) forms should explicitly be handled by the form class – as it > stands now, you can have more fields in your form than you're displaying (the > security implications were discussed some time ago and were judged to be not > threatening, to which I concur). > > As for the list view, this should be handled by Doctrine queries and a grid > component (like sfGridPlugin for symfony 1.x) – this already is entirely > class-based and provides near-limitless possibilities, for example the theme > functionality for pure HTML-based, jQuery-based, or extJS-based admin > generated modules. > > These two things (form system and grid component) should cover more than 90% > of the current admin generator's feature set (and more, see the JavaScript > part) and don't produce the same generated code that exists over and over > again in the cache. :) > > Cheers, Daniel > > On 19.07.2010, at 17:48, Ally Burns wrote: > > > Are there plans to get some input from the community on how this will > > be built? > > > Seems like a great opportunity to build something world class. > > > Sure we can take some inspiration from the Django admin, which is > > fairly neat (in terms of the coding etc.) > > > Personally, I hope we don't have any more autoModelname_actions being > > generated, as I feel there are better ways of achieving the same > > result. (base templates can be generic to work for all admin generated > > modules, can be extended or replaced, generation can make main > > controller only, that would extend class like BaseAdminController > > etc.) > > > I hope the community can embrace Twig here, as it would suit the admin > > well. Don't want to get into a template engine argument though - good > > that Symfony2 will be able to interweave e.g. a php template extending > > a Twig base template. > > > People DO judge a book by its cover, so it would be good if the out > > the box style was top notch too. Who are our top designers who use > > symfony? > > > Some gracefully degrading java script enhancements would be good too. > > > Good to see the Symfony2 website looking a bit prettier than v1. This > > will help adoption too. > > > I'd love to see an area set up where this can be discussed. > > > Dev Community - what would you like to see in the new admin? Likes/ > > Dislikes of old admin? > > > On Jul 19, 3:35 pm, Jonathan Wage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The admin generator feature has not been started yet. > > >> - Jon > > >> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Alexandre Salomé > > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Admin Generator is an application of the framework. > > >>> The framework should be finished before development of such feature. > > >>> 2010/7/19 jaime <[email protected]> > > >>>> Nothing about this??? > > >>>> On Jul 13, 3:11 pm, Thibault D <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> I personally hope the Symfony2 admin gen will be much better than > >>>>> that. > > >>>>> On Jul 13, 12:54 am, jaime <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>>>> Hi Symfony Devs! > > >>>>>> In all presentations about Symfony2 appears that the admin generator > >>>>>> of Symfony2 isn't ready. > > >>>>>> There will be new features in the admin generator too? I have > >>>>>> developed in Symfony and now I'm using Diem, it would be great that > >>>>>> the new admin generator comes with features that Diem has developed > >>>>>> for it's admin > >>>>>> module.http://diem-project.org/diem-5-1/doc/en/reference-book/admin-generato... > > >>>>>> I would really recommend to enter in the demo of Diem and see the > >>>>>> admin module, it has a lot of great features that made the admin > >>>>>> almost ready for a commercial software without too much effort. > > >>>>>> Thanks for all your great job! > > >>>> -- > >>>> If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to > >>>> security at symfony-project.com > > >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>>> Groups "symfony developers" 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/symfony-devs?hl=en > > >>> -- > >>> Alexandre Salomé > >>>http://alexandre-salome.fr > > >>> -- > >>> If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to > >>> security at symfony-project.com > > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>> Groups "symfony developers" 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/symfony-devs?hl=en > > >> -- > >> Jonathan H. 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