( having fun with symfony 1.1 forms )

Setting up our environment

New forms are not symfony-dependant

I'm going to test and experiment with thoose out of a symfony project, just to be able to use their power without any symfony magic around. You can try the same things in a symfony project, but you should keep in mind that form functionnalities are 100% independant from the framework. That's one more step to the major dependencies cleaning in the upcoming symfony 2.0.

Once this we'll reach the limits (hopefully never, but we'll imagine we're reaching 'em), we'll focus on the little symfony specific part, the sfPropelForms.

If you want to get all the running environment, the samples, and symfony forms library part, you can retrieve them on my subversion repository:

Basically, i set up a fast-and-dirty autoloading, and i put every samples in a different php files that will take care of including model, controller and view part of the sample. I know that's not "real" MVC, but for our experiments we won't need it, and it'll be sufficient to show how the three layers are kept well separated in the new form framework.