Forum OpenACS Development: Benefits of ad_form over form builder

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1: Benefits of ad_form over form builder
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 07/05/07 04:48 PM
As I have been asked that question by a client I was wondering what are the benefits the community sees in using ad_form over form builder. On general (mis)conception seems to be that form builder is much more powerful.
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2: Re: Benefits of ad_form over form builder (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 07/05/07 07:25 PM
Interesting.

ad_form simplifies the most commoon cases of using the form builder. There are always times when you need to do someting a different way than ad_form has assumed.

It is very simple to use form builder WITH ad_form, so they really aren't seperate things.

Just show a form builder form definition and an ad_form defintion. The declarative style is much easier to create and read.