[dev] Horde_Form submit variable action

[Richard Wallace]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Richard Wallace <rwallace at thewallacepack.net>:
>
>> I've tried a number of things to workaround this, none of them 
>> pretty.  One was to create a custom action that extends the submit 
>> action and provide it with the name of the form that should actually 
>> be used.  This doesn't work well, though, because I don't know when 
>> constructing the form1 whether it is going to be the one rendered or 
>> if the form2 is going to be rendered, so I run into a chicken and 
>> egg problem.
>
> I think you need to keep it as one form, not two, and reload the form on
> choosing something from your dropdown. Look at PollForm in scry/edit.php, and
> how it uses the 'submit' action.
>

So rather than have multiple forms as whups does it I should use one form and
conditionally add sections after a step has been completed?  I like that, it
should work pretty well.  I can build the first part of the form, validate
that, then build the next section if the previous one validated and so on.
Very nice.  Thanks.

Rich

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