Pear, Quickform, Smarty templates & Overlib demonstration and example

Pear, Quickform, Smarty templates & Overlib demonstration

Quick overview

Please look here for a quick overview of Quickform, Smarty templates & Overlib.

Demonstration

These pages are intended as a quick demo of Quickform, Smarty templates & Overlib, to convince you that is it worth your time to learn more about them.
It is unfortunate that the QuickForm authors seem unable to understand that people need good documentation in order to be able to use software. What little they do provide is largely useless.

Notes:

run these samples in the order below, for each the source code is available.
explanations may be removed where the explanation exists in an earlier example.

Demonstration Php code Smarty template Php code
QuickForm2
Simple Quickform QfSimple.php
Qf2Simple.php

Quickform with data validation QfValid.php
Qf2Valid.php
Quickform with Smarty QfSmarty.php QfSmarty.tpl Qf2Smarty.php
Quickform with Smarty and Overlib QfSmartyOverlib.php QfSmartyOverlib.tpl Qf2SmartyOverlib.php

Demonstration	Php code	Smarty template	Php code QuickForm2
Simple Quickform	QfSimple.php		Qf2Simple.php
Quickform with data validation	QfValid.php		Qf2Valid.php
Quickform with Smarty	QfSmarty.php	QfSmarty.tpl	Qf2Smarty.php
Quickform with Smarty and Overlib	QfSmartyOverlib.php	QfSmartyOverlib.tpl	Qf2SmartyOverlib.php

QuickForm2

This is a rewrite of the package, designed to take advantage of PHP5, in fact needs PHP 5.2 or later.

Both QuickForm and QuickForm2 versions use the same smarty templates (where appropriate).
It now has documentation http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.html.html-quickform2.php
QuickForm2 now does does support client side (javascript) field checking - yahey!
The QuickForm2 code is alpha as of February 2011 — but seems to work reasonably well.
To use the QuickForm2 code you will need the renderer: Smarty.txt, this may not stay there very long — it has been submitted to PEAR for inclusion as a package see: Proposal for "HTML_QuickForm2_Renderer_Smarty". It should be installed somewhere like: /usr/share/pear/HTML/QuickForm2/Renderer/Smarty.php

To see one of every input field that QuickForm2 handles see Qf2ValidTypes.php & the same done with smarty Qf2ValidTypesSm.php with the templates Qf2ValidTypes.tpl and Qf2ValidTypesByElement.tpl. These should be regarded work in progress.

You may also find the stylesheets Qf2Style.css & Qf2StyleSm.css useful.

All files copyright (c) 2005, 2009, 2011 Parliament Hill Computers. Author: Alain D D Williams.
You may used these demontration files as the basis your own (or organisation's/company's) project (under whatever licence that you see fit), but may not claim ownership or copyright of the substantially unmodified files. These demonstrations are made available in the hope that they are useful, there is no warranty at all, use at your own risk.

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