romm
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7 years ago Hi @fedir, thank you for your kind words. :)
The answer is pretty simple: no there is no UI for this kind of complex configuration, and there will probably never be. There are several reasons why I chose not to go in this direction:
- FormZ is really powerful. And it will be even more in a few months with a new feature I'm currently working on for my customer. Transforming all these features in an understandable and powerful UI is a HUGE work, probably even more than what it took to build the current PHP core API.
- I don't have time for this kind of project. For now, I've been working on my own without external help, and I doubt anyone would want/accept to help me for this kind of task, and mostly because: (see above)
- The TYPO3 v8 core extension (EXT:form) does provide this functionality, and it works just really (really) well. This would be a huge waste of time trying to build something that already exists.
Still, I do believe the direction I'm taking for FormZ (since the core extension remake announcement) makes perfect sense. I mostly want FormZ to provide features that will help building huge/complex forms, and these kind of forms do not need a built-in UI interface (I will try to write an article explaining why I believe this).
To answer your question: no, FormZ is not designed only for developers. It also provides a powerful Fluid API, as well as strong CSS helpers, that help integrators doing their job with fewer efforts. See integrator documentation for more information.
Hey Romain, First of all, thank You very much for Your great work. I've a question about Formz project : If any UI exists for TYPO3 Backend (as form builder part of Powermail for example), so the web-master could create/modify it's forms parameters in the TYPO3 Backend ot create complex multi-step form with the choice of field validation ? Or this extension is designed only for TYPO3 Developers ? Thank You for Your answer, Best regards, Fedir