Re: How about using real HTML templates for Form input fields?

So you'd get increased flexiblity (in markup control) but at what cost.

additional overhead (an element for each form input)
and having to make a range of elements for various differing situations

or maybe I am missing the point - I am certain that you can do this without the need to call
a Cake Element for every form element.

am I missing something

 - S

On 3 November 2011 22:17, majna <majnaggz@gmail.com> wrote:

Instead of using array based options for FormHelper inputs like: label, before, after, div, format etc.
maybe HTML templates would be more friendly and easier to customize. For each input type there will be one Cake element as template.

Here is an example, a proof of concept on how it may look like:
https://gist.github.com/1337871

I think this is more flexible and it does not require for developers (designers) to master FormHelper API just to customize HTML.
Those templates could be "theme" specific (like Twitter Bootstrap) and shared as plugin.
There are some drawbacks of course.

Would you use smth like this?
Comments are welcome

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