[Phpgroupware-developers] NEW: tab-widget for eTemplate class

[Ralf Becker]

The eTemplate class has been extended with a tab-widget.

The use of the tab-widget does not influence the program-logic: a 
template-author or an admin can now arrange fields of an existing app 
nicely in tabs (without the need to touch or change the logic of that app).

The tab-widget is implemented as an extension of the eTemplate class. 
The extension interfaces allows now to submit a page to the 
eTemplate-form-handler and to resubmit it to the user without involving 
the app. That way an extension can show eg. the different tabs in 
standard html (without javascript, DOM, etc.) by resubmitting the 
changed page to the user. That is not new in general, new is that the 
app-developer does not have to implement the logic for that.
The tab-widget used a (submit-)buttons in the individual tabs to not 
relie on javascript.

A planned extension for the tab-widget in the future is to use 
DOM/javascript - if availible (IE5 or Morzilla) - to submit all tabs as 
layers to the user. Changeing the tabs is then done locally. Good news 
is that apps using eTemplates will use this without haveing to change 
the source.

If you want to try that new feature / widget you need the HEAD version 
of the 'etemplate' app, which can be installed in 0.9.14 or HEAD 
(unfortunally setup is still not working in HEAD). There is a small 
test-template 'etemplate.tab_widget.test' which shows the use of the new 
widget. Read it with the eTemplate-editor and then call Show.

Ralf
--
Ralf Becker
digital ROCK                                 Telefon: +49 (631) 31657-51
Leibnizstr. 17                               Telefax: +49 (631) 31657-52
D-67663 Kaiserslautern                       Internet:www.digitalROCK.de