* Brandon Harris <[email protected]> [Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:33:59 -0800]: > > One of my goals for the year at the Foundation is "Development > of a > MediaWiki Style Guide." To that end, I have completed the first draft > of one section, focused on Forms and Form elements. > > This project has multiple goals: > > * To create consistency across various interfaces > * To help modernize the MediaWiki interface > * To make the overall user experience more enjoyable > * To make writing user interfaces easier for developers > > In a perfect world, MediaWiki would have a standardized User > Interface > library where a developer can simply say something like > > $myInput = UIElements::getTextInput( > type => 'text' > name => 'elementname', > label => 'The Label', > helptext => 'Help text string', > hint => 'Default value', > instructions => 'Instructions string', > errorconditions => array(blah blah blah) > ); > > And have that do the needful, knowing how to display itself and > handle > errors for itself. > > We don't live in a perfect world, but we can start to get there. > > Here is the first draft. Attack at leisure, and feel free to > ignore my > pathetic mewlings as you cut my soul from my bones. > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/StyleGuide/Forms > > I'm going to expand this further (with things like "tables" and > such) > but for now this is a start. > > You can comment here or on the talk page. > These should use more powerful Xml class, which would not just "linearly" generate inputs but also would allow to build a tree of them and to get / manipulate their nodes and attributes on demand. Arrays are a possible choice, however one might try SPL / SimpleXML / SimpleXMLIterator for that. Gluing output pieces together with concatenations is not nice for large nested output (tags "autoclosing" vs "do not forget to close all your tags manually"). Dmitriy
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