PloneFormGen: Past, Present & Future
Steve McMahon
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Formulator
Infrae ! Download ! 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
FormulatorRendering
PloneFormMailerA Formulator Wrapper for Plone
Jens KleinReinout van Rees
PloneFormMailerA Formulator Wrapper for Plone
Jens KleinReinout van Rees
CMFFormulator Rendering & Validation
PloneFormMailerA Formulator Wrapper for Plone
Jens KleinReinout van Rees
CMFFormulator Rendering & Validation
Sample Form Content
PloneFormMailerA Formulator Wrapper for Plone
Jens KleinReinout 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:
MailingSavingScripting
PloneFormGen Concept
Archetypes already contains a form generator / validator.
Multiple Kinds of actions needed:
MailingSavingScripting
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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