I’ve uploaded the “latest code”:http://peter.mapledesign.co.uk/quests/formprocessor/FormProcessor.tar.bz2 for any of you who are using FormProcessor. This release supports array named fields and multiple selects. Plus there’s a new example and a very small amount of documentation.
No unit tests yet though…
Oh, and you won’t be bale to just unzip this release with Winzip as it’s bzipped to reduce bandwidth usage.
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I have some changes that I have done to the FormProcessor (very minor, just DEBUG related). What is the status of FormProcessor? Will there be any more changes to it/releases of it?
It looks to be a very handy form processor, thanks for your work on it!
I am not sure if you check this regularly, but if you reply to this more than a few days after I posted this (March 18), if you could please e-mail me to note that you posted!
Thanks,
-Travis
FormProcessor is still under development; I just don’t have any time to code except in the holidays. Hopefully more work will be done in the next 4 weeks.
If you want to send me a diff file or the code, then I’ll look at rolling the changes into the next version
When using arrays, I have found that it always outputs:
No data set for $this->data[multiple] with handle ||multiple||
or
No data set for $this->data[multiple][0]
Depending on how the form is.
I noted that this is also happening in your example. I look at the code, and it doesn’t have any switches for turning this off. Is there a “proper” way to do this so that you don’t receive errors?
Are you looking for any partners on the project? This is a small project that I would be willing to contribute to, if you would like some help.
Let me know, or reply with features you have been considering. Or e-mail me.
Thanks for the FormProcessor so far!
-Travis
Travis,
The latest version on my HD doesn’t have this problem AFAIK - I’m emailing it to you.
I really would like some help. I’m a physics student, so I don’t get much time for programming. My task list is something along these lines:
* Plugin architecture. To add items before/after form fields, maybe to manipulate tags and suchlike. Really I think I need the whole page to be parsed into a tree-like structure, so I can edit any tag (I want to add stuff to the of the document like Javascript). Probably impossible… and more suited to a full templating system.
* Unit Tests. I don’t have the time to learn the concept to write them, but they’d be sooooo useful when making changes to the code
* Allow the error tags to be outside the current form. A big limitation for flexible layouts, but would require a huge rewrite (like the first point).
* Javascript validation (to be implemented as a plugin). Why a plugin? So that you can choose the most appropriate type, such as “Client Side Validation”:http://csv.sourceforge.net/validation.html library or “Simon Willison’s”:http://simon.incutio.com/ “on-the-fly visual feedback validation”:http://www.sitepoint.com/article/simple-tricks-usable-forms (don’t miss the “demo”:http://www.sitepoint.com/examples/simpletricks/form-demo.html to understand what I’m talking about)
I’m sure there’s other things I’ve thought of but it’s late so I’m going to bed :0)
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the reply.
I am getting married in a month, so I won’t be of much use for the next month and a half (2 weeks for Honeymoon!!! :)!). But I would be interested in putting some time into this project.
I have found it quite useful, with some minor annoyances (only because only so much time has been available to put into this project), which I understand and appreciate.
Do you think this project could be put into SourceForge or something like it? Just for versioning control… We could set out a todo, and each take on different parts of the project.
It is a valuable part of web stuff, that has never been solved (successfully, I think). I am a Lead Web Developer at a software company in Victoria, BC (Canada). And I think that this would be a very valuable tool to us. With a bit of tweaking, some funky looking client-side stuff, documentation, this project could (I am sure) get quite popular, and a lot of praise.
Thoughts?
-Travis
Did anything more occur with this?? or has development stopped?? and if so, does anyone know of a similar solution?
Thanks,
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