The Zend Framework and Django (Python) for instance have the same kind 
of architecture for their form management.

Fabien

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zeek wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sep 24, 3:05 pm, Eno <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, bghost wrote:
>>> No offense Fabien, this is a well-meaning criticism. I know that you
>>> invested so much effort into Symfony. However,  you are a little
>>> exaggerated forcing object model and  object-oriented programming
>>> where it is  necessary - and where it is not (as is the case with WEB
>>> Forms)
>> I actually *like* the new forms framework. It is a better abstraction than
>> cobbling together helpers in templates, coding the action and having
>> validation in YAML files (plus another file if you had to write your own
>> valiator). Having a form as an object and being able to do things like
>> $form->isNew() or $form->isValid() is easier to me.
> 
> 
> Some people like the new forms framework, but I think it will remain a
> point of controversy. Let's remember that the core Symfony team
> exploded into pieces because of acrimony over the new forms framework.
> I appreciate the abstraction the form classes offer, but at a
> theoretical level I haven't yet gotten my mind around it. What design
> pattern is this? I jokingly said that Symfony now has a MVCF
> architecture, but, more seriously, I'd be curious what other
> frameworks implement something like this, and why?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> 


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