> If you are not using Cake to process the form why use FormHelper when > a good old hand-coded form in HTML works. > > To me Helpers are great time savers when you are utilizing the > frameworks features: validations, auto read/write values to view, > posting to the next action in your controller. If your not using the > built features of cake for a form the helpers could slow down your > performance compared to hard-coded HTML that does not need processing. > > Does anyone else agree with this opinion?
Yup. But I'd go further. The FormHelper is NOT there to 'help make forms'. It's there to help make forms that correspond to the cakephp conventions, so that they can be handled automagically by the rest of the framework. If you're not doing this; if cake is not going to be intercepting, validating and processing your data, then there's no point in using the form helper. What I love about the FormHelper is that you don't have to write much code at all to get everything working. If you are, you're probably doing something wrong. Just my £0.0102912422 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
