[horde] Newbie development question

[Marko Djukic]

i just committed an example of a simple form, see if this helps.
http://cvs.horde.org/hordedoc/developer/work/simple_form.php

it should work in standalone mode, without a horde fully installed.

m.



Quoting Barsalou <barjunk at attglobal.net>:

> I posted this here because I thought others who don't follow the
> development list might gain from this, but will gladly post in the dev
> list if that is more appropriate.
>
> In my quest to learn how things work, I copied the hermes module and
> made a new module called hermtest...everything fine there.
>
> I then wanted to add a new variable to the form...just to see that I
> could do it.  After some head banging, I figured out what needed to be
> done.  Turns out, it was pretty straight forward.  In my travels,
> several questions came to my mind and I was hoping that someone would
> guide me gently in the right direction.
>
> 1. When looking for the _addVariable function (which I eventually found
> in Form.php) I found it difficult to locate.  I eventually found it by
> back tracking through the classes.  The 'index of elements' link at the
> dev.horde.org site was very helpful.  Is there a shortcut I can take
> advantage of?
>
> 2. I am assuming that the information that is listed in the method is
> the only info about the fields.  Some of it was self explanatory, but
> some I am not sure of the purpose.  Example:  the $required parameter
> was pretty easy to figure out, but the mixed params is not clear to me.
>
> 3. I realized that because I am adding a new value to the TimeForm, that
> there will be more than one location that will need to be modified.
> What ways do others use to locate all the possible spots that I might
> also need to change?  Is testing the ONLY way to know, or are there
> other ways that work well too?
>
> Thanks for producing such good software and making it Open Source.
>
> Mike
>
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Marko Djukic
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