[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18285: New Settings API and workflow
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#18285: New Settings API and workflow
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Reporter: nacin | Owner:
Type: task (blessed) | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 3.3
Component: Plugins | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by mikeschinkel):
Replying to [comment:5 nacin]:
> I strongly dislike form *field* construction. The best API for
constructing fields is HTML.
Spoken by someone who has never had to implement highly complex data entry
forms, and then maintain them?
In general I agree that creating PHP wrappers for HTML just makes
implement HTML forms complicated, but there is usually a lot more to
managing data entry fields than just their HTML layout.
FWIW, I've been working on exactly this problem on and off for the past 6+
months, and it's a rather hard problem to tackle. I'll be releasing what
I'm working on to beta hopefully within 30 days with a goal of launching
as a community plugin within 90-120 days. I can give anyone interested
access to it in alpha now. Because of the scope of doing this in a manner
than is flexible enough for most needs I doubt anything substantial and
robust could be built in time for 3.3, or even 3.4. Maybe the core team
can learn from any architecture errors I may make that are uncovered over
the next year?
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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18285#comment:14>
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