[eluser]Ollie Rattue[/eluser]
drewbee, thanks for the insightful feedback. I really like the maxlength feature. As you say it is something thats suits FormIgniter. You enter the data quickly once and it reproduces it in numerous places; removing the repition is what it is all about. I will add this in when I get a moment, aswell as auto setting the 'DB field Length/Values' in the database Schema
[quote author="drewbee" date="1242259688"]Very cool start to something here though!!!
I guess from the configuration point, it's really just about building it to be completely custom to how the user outputs code. If I could specify how it builds the output in the view, controller, model etc that is even sicker!![/quote]
Again the arrays format is interesting, and feeds into a larger question about what FormIgniter is for. When I use FormIgniter myself, I take its output (or sometimes just a section of it) as my base from which I can then add the more bespoke features (AJAX, custom callbacks, session data, autoresponders etc).
FormIgniter saves me time, and means I don't have to do the boring drudge work. My idea was that 60-70% of building a validated form using CodeIgniters mechanisms is repition. If a code generator can do this for me then great!
However adding endless configuration options perhaps enters a situation of diminishing returns. As it is the interface is clean and IMO pretty easy to use. Perhaps it would be easy to complicate something that ultimate was designed for a simple task.
I intend to tidy the codebase up (horribly messy at the moment) and upload the source code. It would then be easy to customise the output to your way of working.
Thanks again for taking the time to post your thoughts.
