DB_DataObject_FormBuilder

Class to automatically build HTML_QuickForm objects from a DB_DataObject-derived class

DB_DataObject_FormBuilder will aid you in rapid application development using the packages DB_DataObject and HTML_QuickForm. For having a quick but working prototype of your application, simply model the database, run DataObject´s createTable script over it and write a script that passes one of the resulting objects to the FormBuilder class. The FormBuilder will automatically generate a simple but working HTML_QuickForm object that you can use to test your application. It also provides a processing method that will automatically detect if an insert() or update() command has to be executed after the form has been submitted. If you have set up DataObject´s links.ini file correctly, it will also automatically detect if a table field is a foreign key and will populate a selectbox with the linked table´s entries. There are many optional parameters that you can place in your DataObjects.ini or in the properties of your derived classes, that you can use to fine-tune the form-generation, gradually turning the prototypes into fully-featured forms, and you can take control at any stage of the process. mw21st Markus Wolff mw21st@php.net lead 0.8.2 2003-08-28 PHP License beta New features: - Support for custom field order (Fabien Franzen) - Support for grouped elements (Fabien Franzen) - Optional call to DB_DataObject::validate() on processing form data (suggested by Ron McClain) - Possibility to optionally use existing form objects (suggested by Alexey Borzoff) HTML_QuickForm DB_DataObject 0.8.1 2003-08-23 beta Bugfix release: - Fixed a bug in getSelectOptions() that occured if the linked field was NULL - Fixed a bug with tables containing integer fields but having no entry in the links.ini (thanks to Fabien Franzen for reporting it) 0.8 2003-08-21 beta - Initial release.