[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18285: New Settings API and workflow

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#18285: New Settings API and workflow
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 Reporter:  nacin           |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.3
Component:  Plugins         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |
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Comment (by mikeschinkel):

 Replying to [comment:5 nacin]:
 > I strongly dislike form *field* construction. The best API for
 constructing fields is HTML.

 Spoken by someone who has never had to implement highly complex data entry
 forms, and then maintain them?

 In general I agree that creating PHP wrappers for HTML just makes
 implement HTML forms complicated, but there is usually a lot more to
 managing data entry fields than just their HTML layout.

 FWIW, I've been working on exactly this problem on and off for the past 6+
 months, and it's a rather hard problem to tackle. I'll be releasing what
 I'm working on to beta hopefully within 30 days with a goal of launching
 as a community plugin within 90-120 days. I can give anyone interested
 access to it in alpha now. Because of the scope of doing this in a manner
 than is flexible enough for most needs I doubt anything substantial and
 robust could be built in time for 3.3, or even 3.4.  Maybe the core team
 can learn from any architecture errors I may make that are uncovered over
 the next year?

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