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[nycphp-talk] Proper Form Processing Techniques

Greg Rundlett (freephile) greg at freephile.com
Thu May 22 09:49:49 EDT 2014


On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Michael B Allen <ioplex at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Occasionally I need to do a little web programming and I must admit
> after almost 2 decades I still find myself searching for a better way
> to handle HTML forms. I blame this mostly on the W3C's invalid
> assumption that HTML is for rendering documents and not building
> applications. But putting blame aside, I would like to ask the list to
> share their best form processing techniques.
>
>
Use Node.js.  This O'Reilly article from 2011
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/what-is-node.html introduces node.js in a
pretty general way.  Node.js isn't the answer to everything, and since it's
not directly related to form processing one might think it doesn't answer
OP's question.  But it is a great development that has happened over the
past n<20 years that does add another tool to the toolbox for solving web
application needs.

The other thing is to use HTML5, which among other things offers new form
controls like sliders and date pickers (http://diveintohtml5.info/forms.html).


Data-centric applications can benefit from a node.js implementation in
tandem with web sockets can make that data available to all clients in a
real-time scenario.

Greg Rundlett
http://eQuality-Tech.com <http://equality-tech.com/>
http://freephile.org
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