PloneFormGen: Past, Present, Future

PloneFormGen: Past, Present & Future Steve McMahon

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Infrae ! Download ! Formulator Formulator Formulator Formulator is an extensible framework that eases the creation and validation of web forms. HISTORY for the latest release. Important links: Subscribe to the Formulator mailing list, for general discussions and questions on Formulator usage. If you're interested in the further development of Formulator, subscribe to the Formulator-dev list Formulator SourceForge project page Formulator SVN web Check out Formulator from SVN like this: svn co https://infrae.com/svn/Formulator/trunk Formulator Important hint: Don't ever use field_<fieldname>; anything prefixed with field_ in REQUEST is a Formulator implementation detail. Instead, don't forget to validate the form, for instance using validate_all_to_request(). See the Formulator API help and Howto for more information. Forgetting to validate the form is the most frequently made Formulator mistake that I've encountered. Documentation: Formulator HOWTO Very nice slides about Formulator by Jens Quade (in German) A Zopelabs recipe by Scott Burton on using Formulator with Zope Page Templates Howto on using Formulator with Zope Page Templates by Beno Some less important links: Formulator on Freshmeat Formulator project page on Advogato older Formulator page on zope.org License: New BSD Release version Release date Release files Formulator 1.11.3 21 may 2007 15:05 Formulator-1.11.3.tgz Formulator 1.11.2 12 jun 2006 16:35 Formulator-1.11.2.tgz Formulator 1.11.1 02 feb 2006 18:21 Formulator-1.11.1.tgz Formulator 1.11 23 jan 2006 15:54 Formulator-1.11.tgz Formulator 1.10.1 16 dec 2005 16:21 Formulator-1.10.1.tar.gz Formulator 1.10 09 sep 2005 16:40 Formulator-1.10.tgz Formulator 1.9.0 25 may 2005 21:05 Formulator-1.9.0.tgz Formulator 1.8.0 21 jan 2005 15:32 Formulator-1.8.0.tgz Formulator 1.7.0 08 sep 2004 18:20 Formulator-1.7.0.tgz Formulator 1.6.2 01 sep 2004 10:47 Formulator-1.6.2.tgz Public Domain

Formulator

Formulator Overrides

Formulator Rendering

PloneFormMailer A Formulator Wrapper for Plone Jens Klein Reinout van Rees

PloneFormMailer A Formulator Wrapper for Plone Jens Klein Reinout van Rees CMFFormulator Rendering & Validation

PloneFormMailer A Formulator Wrapper for Plone Jens Klein Reinout van Rees CMFFormulator Rendering & Validation Sample Form Content

PloneFormMailer A Formulator Wrapper for Plone Jens Klein Reinout van Rees CMFFormulator Rendering & Validation Sample Form Content Excellent Mail Functionality Built-In

PloneFormGen Concept

PloneFormGen Concept Archetypes already contains a form generator / validator.

PloneFormGen Concept Archetypes already contains a form generator / validator. Multiple Kinds of actions needed: Mailing Saving Scripting

PloneFormGen Concept Archetypes already contains a form generator / validator. Multiple Kinds of actions needed: Mailing Saving Scripting Simple — better easy than complete.

PloneFormGen Architecture: Fields

PloneFormGen Architecture: Fields Fields types are all individual content types.

PloneFormGen Architecture: Fields Fields types are all individual content types. Each ﬁeld object contains an embedded Archetypes ﬁeld.

PloneFormGen Architecture: Fields Fields types are all individual content types. Each field object contains an embedded Archetypes field. Each field object knows how to render and validate itself.

PloneFormGen Architecture: Fields Fields types are all individual content types. Each field object contains an embedded Archetypes field. Each field object knows how to render and validate itself. The form folder contains the fields; they are rendered in order.

PloneFormGen Architecture: Actions

PloneFormGen Architecture: Actions Action adapters are also content types.

PloneFormGen Architecture: Actions Action adapters are also content types. They are not Z3 adapters!

PloneFormGen Architecture: Actions Action adapters are also content types. They are not Z3 adapters! Each has an OnSuccess method.

PloneFormGen Architecture: Actions Action adapters are also content types. They are not Z3 adapters! Each has an OnSuccess method. Actions are executed in order.

PloneFormGen Architecture: Actions Action adapters are also content types. They are not Z3 adapters! Each has an OnSuccess method. Actions are executed in order. Built-ins include mailer, saver, script.

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PloneFormGen Extensions

PloneFormGen Extensions SalesForce adapter

PloneFormGen Extensions SalesForce adapter CAPTCHAs

PloneFormGen Extensions SalesForce adapter CAPTCHAs GetPaid

Simple PFG Tricks

Simple PFG Tricks Ad-hoc validators / defaults.

Simple PFG Tricks Ad-hoc validators / defaults. Multiple controlled actions

Simple PFG Tricks Ad-hoc validators / defaults. Multiple controlled actions Chained forms

Simple PFG Tricks Ad-hoc validators / defaults. Multiple controlled actions Chained forms Turning ﬁelds on/off

Simple PFG Tricks Ad-hoc validators / defaults. Multiple controlled actions Chained forms Turning ﬁelds on/off SQL CRU(D)

Amazing PFG Tricks

Amazing PFG Tricks JavaScript/CSS Injection

Amazing PFG Tricks JavaScript/CSS Injection Highly customized thanks pages

Amazing PFG Tricks JavaScript/CSS Injection Highly customized thanks pages Posting to outside

Amazing PFG Tricks JavaScript/CSS Injection Highly customized thanks pages Posting to outside Creating content

PFG Gotchas:

PFG Gotchas: Incredibly inefﬁcient due to Plone 2.1 architecture

PFG Gotchas: Incredibly inefﬁcient due to Plone 2.1 architecture Not interactive enough

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Zope 3 Events

Zope 3 Schema

z3c.form

KSS: inline validation form editing

Smooth Migration Stay Simple

Dexterity

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PloneFormGen: Past, Present, Future

by Steve McMahon on Oct 15, 2008

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