Khalid B wrote:
One thing I have been playing with, is a module that acts like wrappers around the form api. So that we can (back again) call form_select(). For those who feel unconfy with the Fapi (like me). Or those not willing/able to invest a lot of time to learn Fapi (like me). The actual plan/implemenation set aside: if there is a need for some "old fashioned bakwards, and in the eyes of a lot of developers plain stupid" concepts. It will make it.
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Use formupdater and it will do a lot of the grudge work for you. Most of my modules are converted now to 4.7, and much of that was done by a relative newcomer to Drupal (my partner).
The advanced uses of FAPI are another matter though ...
As the resident annoying newbie. I echo that. My impression of both systems, before I'd used either, was they both solved my problem - my hatred of coding forms in HTML. If anything, FAPI *looked* easier for a newcomer. My first Drupal patch was a FAPI upgrade with the help of formupdater. That was with less than a year programming web.