[Solar-talk] Rename "form" helper?

[Paul M Jones]

On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Antti Holvikari wrote:

> On 7/17/06, Paul M Jones <pmjones at ciaweb.net> wrote:
>> Hi all --
>>
>> A lot of my controllers use $form as a Solar_Form object that gets
>> assigned to the view.  This leads to things like ...
>>
>>      echo $this->form($this->form);
>>
>> ... in the view scripts, which is a little confusing.  Technically
>> you can use a different name than "form" for your variable, but
>> "form" seems to be a common convention and it makes sense by itself.
>>
>> With that in mind, perhaps the helper ought to be renamed (maybe
>> "$this->quickForm(...)").
>>
>> Any thoughts on this?
>
> I'd stick with $this->form(). Shorter method names are so "Solary"
> :-). Let the developer rename the variables. I find myself using a
> variable name like "pform" or "uform" to indicate what the form does.

Fair enough.  :-)



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