Interface Module

@rsvelko - When will Interface be released?

Interface will be released as a contributed module as soon as it is ready. We are working out the remains of the API right now, and expect to be doing so for about another month. I will be putting up at least one more screencast when we have behaviors working the way we want them.

We did not release it earlier to avoid getting deluged with issues. Working out the challenges created by some CCK fields has taken a lot of effort, and I don't want to get bogged down with requests to make it work for X field type when we could be making it work for all field types. We have had to do a lot of high level planning around the API to ensure that it is going to be generally useful, and I just didn't see us being able to do that while handling support requests.

When it does come out, it will be released in beta form, and will stay in beta until a regular user can exactly clone the interface from another FOSS CMS in less than a couple minutes. That will mean we have to write some additional behaviors to support various versions of the other system's interfaces before saying it is 'done', and I may hold off on releasing certain behaviors and templates until they work the way I intend for them to work.

Also, Interface deserves a great deal of scrutiny before being used by a lot of people. Interface interacts with the form api at a very low level and does a lot of transformations of form arrays at various stages of the processing cycle. This is exactly the kind of functionality that requires a good deal of peer review and testing from other people in the Drupal community before we can really say it's solid.

M

Damien - feel free to put this someplace better. I only opened a ticket because this was becoming OT in another thread.

Regarding form builder, this is very different from from builder.

M

Great, created a project for it.

Look for updates there.

M