a programmer's best friend :: Entries from Friday, November 26. 2004

Today, Sebastian released the first public version of patForms. Here's what he wrote in his release announcement:

"Many were eagerly awaiting this moment, and this is it: patForms is out, It's only an alpha version, but that depends on the parts of patForms you will be using. In you don't know what our form abstraction class is or what it can do for you, have a look at the overview. Otherwise, download and test away! Just make sure you report any bugs you find via our patBugzilla."

So the next thing is to propose this package to PEAR as it would allow us a faster release cycle and provide a better infrastructure. And it would introduce this package to a broader audience.

If you haven't tried patForms yet, now's the perfect time for it.

In an entry in the Bitflux blog chregu writes, that they started integrating patForms in the Bitflux CMS.
So finally people start using this projects, which is great, as it hasn't even seen an official release yet. So if you wonder, how people can use this already, you may be interested in the latest CVS snapshot, API documentation or the examples.

I was really happy, that the guys at Bitflux like using patForms, as they developed a lot of things I really liked and chregu is one of the few people I really look up to, when it comes to XML knowledge.
The only feature they have been missing so far is multi-page support, but this is on my todo list, maybe I could work on this together with the Bitflux team.

This morning, Sebastian promised to prepare a first release and already applied for a PEAR account, as we would like to submit this project to PEAR (this has been requested by people like Toby, Lukas, Klaus, Arnaud, Carsten, Aaron, Markus and Christian). Hey, this should ensure our five votes, that we need...

So keep your eyes open for the first official patForms release, or get the latest snapshot, there are tons of (well documented) examples included, so it should not be too hard to get started with patForms. We are already using it in a lot of commercial projects, when will you start using it?