[drupal-devel] Rewriting use of forms in Drupal

Adrian Rossouw adrian at bryght.com
Fri Jun 3 16:12:32 UTC 2005


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On 03 Jun 2005, at 6:17 PM, Nedjo Rogers wrote:

>> Only in form() itself we'd generate the html. form() should be a
>> themable function.
>>
>
> A great step forward--better control, more flexibility.  Anything  
> that moves us away from hard-coded HTML generation and toward  
> separation of content and presentation is a good thing.
>
> The "weight" parameter suggestion sounds good.  I've often been  
> frustrated at not having control over the order of form elements  
> (e.g., not being able to insert new elements at a specified place).
>
Also, it opens up the ability to pass the elements of nodes to the  
theme_node as an array, meaning we can use this as a display  
mechanism too.



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Adrian Rossouw
Drupal developer and Bryght Guy
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