a programmer's best friend :: Entries from Monday, August 15. 2005

Yesterday we released the first beta of patForms, following our second alpha release. There has been a lot of activity around patForms lately, and most notably a new lead developer has joined the team: Sven Fuchs. Among other things he has added a complete layer that allows patForms propel integration, and has contributed new renderers.

Quick overview of changes:

• A lot of bugfixes, subpackages more stable
• Propel integration
• New renderers: Smarty, PHPTal and HTML_Template_Flexy
• Form namespaces
• New rules and storages
• Enhanced parser
• Minor enhacements and new features

With all the bugfixes and enhancements in this new version, the whole package has become a lot more stable and along with the new functionality has taken a step more towards making working with forms fun We are planning to make a first stable release in october, so we need your help in weeding out the leftover bugs!

If you are using patForms in your projets, please upgrade and test the new version (please see the section on upgrading further down in this post for additional notes). If you do not know patForms yet, I think this is a good time to discover the projet. With the extensive and comprehensive examples collection, you can start working with it in a breeze!

You can report any bugs or feature requests in our new Trac-powered project manager, where you can also find a documentation wiki.

[1] Download via our PEAR channel server
[2] Download via the traditional download page
[3] Project manager (bugs, feature request, wiki)
[4] Online examples collection