Introduction

This plugin allows you to make prettier accessible forms.

Very simply it provides a helper with a function, accessible_form_tag() which acts just like form_tag() but adds a stylesheet and some javascript. The result is nicely structured forms using semantic markup.

Installation

This plugin is only available via svn. If you would like to make this a pear package please contact the maintainer (Dave Dash).

cd plugins/
svn co http://svn.symfony-project.com/plugins/ddAccessibleFormPlugin ddAccessibleFormPlugin

Then create the proper symlink:

cd web/
ln -s ../plugins/ddAccessibleFormPlugin/web ddAccessibleFormPlugin

Javascript

The cmxform.js forces label tags to use the inline-box display style. It currently depends on the jquery javascript library. A copy of jquery.js is bundled and will be used unless overridden by the SF_JQUERY_WEB_DIR setting.

Alternately you may use the Yahoo User Interface library. For this to work, set SF_JS_LIB to yui and set SF_YUI_WEB_DIR to the proper location. If you are using hosted YUI, you can have a setting like so in your settings.yml:

    yui_web_dir:            http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.4.1/build/

It's not recommended to mix multiple libraries. If you use dojo, moo tools or prototype, it might be wise to create an alternate cmxform.js for your platform. If you create such a package please let the maintainer (Dave Dash) know and he'll gladly include it in this plugin.

Maintenance/Authors

This plugin is currently maintained by Dave Dash @ spindrop.us. If you'd like to contribute please contact him with patches.

Changelog

2008-01-07 Updated README 2008-01-21 Added YUI support, cleaned up jQuery code.

Todo

* Impliment in moo tools * Impliment in Prototype * Create PEAR package * Impliment in dojo