On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 03:00 PM, Matt Feifarek wrote:
Randall Randall wrote:
On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 10:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
What's the major difference between FormKit and FunFormKit? Which form kit should be used?
One major difference seems to be that FFK expects you to use it to build your form layout as well as the tags and validation methods, whereas FormKit is less featureful, but (in my opinion) is more flexible with respect to using templating systems like tplCompiler.
What features would you say that FFK has that FK is missing, out of curiosity?
Well, layout building and umpteen incredibly specific validators and field types. These things didn't seem very useful for what I wanted to do, and made FFK's learning curve steeper, so I gave it up in favor of building forms by hand. I had a deadline. :)
FormKit is, as you know, what I'm using now. This is mostly because it takes less to set up, has less syntax (like colons and asterisks), and has fewer US-specific things like "PhoneNumber" fields that only accept phone numbers in North America, and "PostalCode" fields that only accept 5 or 9 digit postal codes...
These are useful, I'm sure, for lots of people; just not me.
So that's what I meant by "less featureful". There are some things that I'd like to see in future versions of FK, like handling unexpected lists and so on, but I haven't really come up with a FK specific resolution to that. My installation currently throws away all but the first entry in any lists in self.request().fields(), unless the field in question specifies a list, and then it makes any single inputs into a list. I'm not sure if anyone else wants to handle that in this way, though.
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