Posted by
Erik Bruchez on
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/FormBuilder-can-a-richer-Help-Message-be-created-tp3022174p3024746.html
> Sorry for the beginner questions ..
No problem!
> So I understand that I should skip FormBuilder to integrate Xforms into
> external frameworks?
"Skipping" Form Builder should probably not be based strictly on
whether help can support HTML ;)
If you need a builder than definitely look into Form Builder. If you
don't, then yes, skip.
> In fact my intended framework is PHP5 and I plan to generate Xforms by PHP5
> and then run them on the XForms engine.
>
> Is FormRunner the same as the XForms engine?
See the FAQ for the diffs between Form Builder/Form Runner/XForms engine:
http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/orbeon-forms-faq/faq-orbeon-form-builder> Is this a good starting point (integrating with java)?
>
>
http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xforms-with-java-applicationsFor one particular type of integration, yes.
> My interest is to have a front end system (PHP5 based) which dynamically
> generates the xml creating the Xforms (by PHP and not JSP) to run on XForms
> engine.
>
> From a tree structure with several hundred nodes each node in the tree
> requires one of a set of Xforms to be selected and data for that node
> submitted to eXist db, and later eXist to be queried for the Xform data.
>
> I need to learn how to communicate between XForms engine and external PHP5
> framework.
>
> I read that this has been done with TYPO3.
What we did was a proxying front-end for Form Runner:
http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/form-runner/typo3-extensionWhat it seems like you want to implement is a service that:
* receives XForms from PHP (through HTTP?)
* processes the form through the XForms engine (possibly Form Runner)
The difference with the TYPO3 proxy is that in that case, forms were
not dynamically generated: they were built with Form Builder.
-Erik
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