Description: ------------ These patch implements arrayAccess Interface into HTML_QuickForm2_Container

very short incomplete example usage: $form['container'] = array('fieldset'); $form['container']['element_id'] = array('text'); echo $form['element_id']; echo $form['container']['element_id']; unset($form['container']); with Smarty: {$form.element_id} {$form.container.element_id}

I'd love to see this.

I like this too, but we have to check for side cases first. With ArrayAccess, things can get ugly.

If we are trying to mimic SimpleXML here, then we probably should use ArrayAccess for attributes (and that should be implemented in HTML_Common2). Also note that SimpleXML itself allows $xml->foo = 'bar'; only for text content, you still have to do $xml->foo->addChild('bar', 'text'); to add a child element. We generally don't do text content in QF2 and semantics of $form->foo = array('bar') are difficult to understand, IMO. Are we adding element of type 'bar' named 'foo' or vice versa? What happens if form already contains element named 'foo' (or 'bar')? Current __call()-based methods $form->addBar('foo'); or $form->addFoo('bar'); are sufficiently short, IMO. And less confusing. I do think magic __get() / __isset() methods can be implemented as a shorthand for getElementById(), though. But let's keep this stuff read-only.

I think the readonly stuff would suffice for most use cases.

Added ArrayAccess to HTML_Common2: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Common2/download/2.1.0