Derek Hohls wrote:
" just use the same names for your form fields and the database columns!"
Yep. "convention over configuration", as the Ruby on Rails people like to say. Saves a lot of typing in configuration files!
Cool! Have just been reading through Andrews' Get Together presentation on "Simplifying Cocoon" and I am sure this aspect fits right in with what he is calling for... many (most?) of the pieces of the "Simple Cocoon" are there - by 2.2 what he is suggesting should be do-able?
Actually, when Andrew saw what I was working on during the GT, this highly resonated with his current thoughts about it.
And in the wild thoughts department, the newish (and still under development) form library stuff opens even more doors: a form library could be dynamically generated from a database introspection, and you could simply extend this library to enhance it with the additional actions, validation and event listeners that are needed. Even less typing ;-)
Cocoon is powerful but a bit complicated, and very soon it will be even more powerful and very simple to use. Add Ajax in the mix and wow, writing webapps is fun :-)
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