Form Handling Package recommendations ?

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jl
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Form Handling Package recommendations ?

Post by jl »

I'm in the planning stages of a medium sized project which is going to have some large forms.

I've never used any 3rd party pre-packaged form processing before, but think it makes sense for this project, mainly to automatically produce consistent looking forms and do automatic type validation (client or server side, not sure yet) but perhaps to also add some nifty features such as dividing one huge form I have into 3 separate sections, or provide some neat 'controls' (e.g. date pickers).

So far all I've found that jumps out at me is bs_form from the blue shoes framework project. It looks OK, but not ideal in a few ways (one being it's not 100% free, free version has obfuscated code which leaves me in trouble on a 3 week project if I find I need to hack the source in week 3).

Looking for info an other recommended or established form processing systems.

TIA,

jl
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Post by timvw »

Might want to look at QuickForm and all it's extensions...
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Post by matthijs »

I have had some good experiences with http://www.formhandler.net/ It can do a lot (including validation and database interaction, while at the same time being quite flexible. (at the moment they are changing the site and updating the documentation so that's not complete at the moment)
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