jForms: support of <group>

No problem if you propose a solution for templates : how can we generate this fieldset ? For the moment, we cannot because formcontrols loops over all controls.. Suggest some new template plugins.

Replying to laurentj:

Suggest some new template plugins.

Well, I will try to find something usable in templates...

It's OK, I think how to do it. The same mecanism could be used for other future tags like <switch>, <repeat> etc..

I'm going to develop it, I need it for jbugTracker

Replying to laurentj:

It's OK, I think how to do it. The same mecanism could be used for other future tags like <switch>, <repeat> etc.. I'm going to develop it, I need it for jbugTracker

OK, was digging in jForms, and I am glad you have an idea how to do it !

The syntax of group tag will be:

<group ref="foo">
    <label>The label of the group </label>

    <!-- all controls of the group -->
    <input .../>
    <othercontrol .../>
    ...
</group>

If we deactivate the group or if we mark it as readonly, all its controls will be deactivated or readonly.

For the template part :

If the control is displayed throw a formcontrols loop or by formfull, it will generate a default html content like this:

<fieldset><legend>The label of the group</legend>
<table>
<tr><th><label>....here the label of the first control</th>
    <td>here the first control</td></tr>
etc.
</table>
</fieldset>

If we want to personnalize the output, we would use the form_control_group plugin. Example which generate the same content as the default html generation like above:

    {form_control_group 'ref_of_control', '<fieldset><legend>%s</legend><table>', '</table></fieldset>'}
      <tr><th>{ctrl_label}</th><td>{ctrl_control}</td>
    {/form_control_group}

this plugin loops over all child controls of the group. The second and third argument are the content before and after the list of controls. "%s" is replaced by the label of the group.

All comments are welcomed.

I'm ok with that proposal as template plugins allow us to personnalize the output as we want. I also relly like the concept of inheritance of readonly and deactivate attributes.

It works on the experimental/jforms-group branch. I still have to create the form_control_group plugin.

landed into the trunk.