First Beta of patForms due this month :: a programmer's best friend

patForms is slowly reaching maturity, and for those of you who have been following patForm's development a little closer, there have recently been a few interesting changes:

- I have entirely rewritten the Date element, which now generates several input fields directly for each token in the specified date format, and can either display as several text input fields or select boxes. The API has changed a bit, so if you are using the Date element in your projets, be careful when upgrading. Please post any bugs you find via bugs.php-tools.net.

- I have reviewed all the patForms elements and rewritten parts to optimize the code, and finish implementing the display and edit attributes - they now work correctly in HTML and Readonly modes.

- Finally, I added a small feature to the examples framework, which is to display the submitted form values after submitting a form.

- Stephan on his side has finished implementing the Group element, and thanks to the new patForms_Collection class which can be used for handling multiple forms, the patForms_Parser can now handle multiple forms in a form template.

- Stephan also added support for external user error codes definitions so you can either define your own for the existing locales, or add new error codes for your own locales.

As it stands, we will release a first beta of patForms this month, along with an article in the international PHP Magazine on easy form management also featuring patForms. You can have a look at the current CVS snapshot via snaps.php-tools.net.