[development] FAPI's future

[Sean Robertson]

Yeah, I thought so too.  On the view op, get the name of the form and 
add it to your list in the database so it can be configured, and then on 
the validate op, check it against the flood count or whatever.  The 
latest release of the captcha module does this for choosng which forms 
to put the captchas on.




Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
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> Dries Buytaert schrieb:
>> *** Dries wrote:
>>>>> FAPI and the Schema API: next steps (*)
>>>>>   - A plan to get some more CCK/Views into core (*)
>> *** Jeff Eaton and chx replied:
>>>> I do not think we (Eaton+me) will have more ideas for FAPI, all the
>>>> common grunts were solved w/ FAPI3, not until D6 is out, modules are
>>>> ported and projects are ongoing will the flaws come to light. Let's
>>>> get back to FAPI at the spring Drupalcon (Toronto?).
>>> Yep, I'm with Karoly on this one. There are some cleanup bits and
>>> things we didn't necessarily have time for in FAPI3 (making
>>> form_set_values() and form_set_error() simpler, etc) but those are
>>> tweaks and polishing moves rather than architectural shifts.
>>>
>>> It will take time, time for porting and exploration and
>>> envelope-pushing, to make it clear what changes the next generation
>>> will need.
>> Well, I have some issues still.  Two simple examples:
>>
>>   1. Say I want to build a "submission throttle module".  A user is not
>> allowed to submit more than x forms per hour.  If I want to make this
>> module truly generic, I want to make it configurable.  Specifically, I
>> want to compile a list of all the forms in the system, and let the
>> administrator enable/disable the forms that should be added to the pool
>> of forms to be throttled.  For example, I might include the 'create
>> story form', the 'create comment form', the forms of the privatemsg
>> module, and the guestbook module's form.  However, I might want to
>> exclude the search form, and the edit comment form -- I want people to
>> be able to search and edit their comments as much as they want.
> 
> Am I confused for thinking that you could do that in Drupal 4.7? You
> only need to look at that configurable list of yours in hook_form_alter
> and increment a counter in a custom submit handler that you add and
> query that counter in thook_form_alter.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Gerhard
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