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Buliding CodeIgniter App - Need advice on XFORMS - El Forum - 05-24-2009
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hello
I am building an application, and one of the requirements is to use XFORMS not HTML Forms. Can anybody advice on how to implement XFORMS in CodeIgniter.
Thanks guys!
Buliding CodeIgniter App - Need advice on XFORMS - El Forum - 05-25-2009
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
First, you should use a client-side XForms implementation. You might use the Mozilla extension or an AJAX based solution such as XSLTForms (http://www.agencexml.com/xsltforms).
HTML Table Class is not compatible with the MVC approach in XForms, the Form Validation Class neither...
Buliding CodeIgniter App - Need advice on XFORMS - El Forum - 05-25-2009
[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
If you want the browser to parse xforms i guess it will be nothing more than putting the xform markup in the view files. I'm not sure if the markup can be parsed if it's embedded in text/html outputted content.
The second obstacle is i don't think all browsers support native xform, some don't even support the current css specifications. So you need a severside parser removing a great feature of xforms, the event handlers, as the serverside parser will output an html form.
For CI it means if you have a serverside parser you have to load that library and bind the output to the master view if there is one or use a serverside parser that catches the forms in the views directory and it has a method that can output the cache file.
Code:
// output to master view example
$data['content'] = $this->xforms_parser->to_html('some_form.xml')->get_rendered_content();
// cached output example
$this->load->view($this->xforms_parser->to_html('some_form.xml')->get_cache_name());