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#13 2017-04-25 09:22:25

jakob
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Re: Rebrand contact form plugin

gomedia wrote #305465:

+1 for txp:contact – maintains some familiarity with the past, less typing, and also we don’t then have code like <txp:html_form_text html_form="xx" />.

True, both are good points.

One more idea, though: how about txp:input?


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#14 2017-04-25 10:45:57

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Re: Rebrand contact form plugin

You’re welcome.

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#15 2017-04-25 12:36:58

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Re: Rebrand contact form plugin

re: the name

txp:contact is okay. Not a fan of html_form for reasons already stated by others. txp:input would seem broader. Or perhaps txp:event (not in terms of calendar event, but in terms of some input or other item is triggering an action on the front side type event). Though that isn’t necessarily any better than txp:contact or txp:input. Just an alternative for the sake of brainstorming if txp:form is out.

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#16 2017-04-25 13:12:22

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Re: Rebrand contact form plugin

Hi,
input is for me the most generic word after form, but honestly I would prefer form, even if it may be confusing with Txp forms. form is just how it is called and how people would search for it. Txp forms should maybe not be named forms. I know that it won’t change but is it a reason to spread alternative tag names?
Furthermore, we are talking about a new plugin name isn’t it, not a core tag?

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#17 2017-04-25 13:23:48

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Re: Rebrand contact form plugin

form isn’t going to fly, sorry, unless it’s prefixed with a plugin author prefix like <txp:pub_form /> or was <txp:contact_form />. Otherwise you’d get something like <txp:form form="my_form" /> which looks confusing to me.

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#18 2017-04-25 13:35:06

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Re: Rebrand contact form plugin

philwareham wrote #305477:

[…] unless it’s prefixed with a plugin author prefix […]

Wouldn’t it be?

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#19 2017-04-25 13:36:42

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Re: Rebrand contact form plugin

NicolasGraph wrote #305478:

Wouldn’t it be?

I guess so.

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#20 2017-04-25 13:48:39

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Re: Rebrand contact form plugin

Wooooooah, hold up everyone!

It’s a plugin, it still needs a prefix. All this talk of making it a core plugin/module is somewhat premature, imo. Bottom line, the plugin adds a slew of tags for creating different types of input control. I don’t want to add this plugin to core, because we already have waaay too many tags.

txp:contact is a noble idea, but what of the 10-15 other tags? txp:contact_text, txp:contact_email, txp:contact_textarea, txp:contact_radio, …it gets daft.

This is really just about the plugin getting a more useful title, with suitable prefix. One day I’d like to expand core’s email ability now everything’s in a lovely central class so maybe at that point we can revisit the plugin and integrate it more tightly with the core’s mail system.


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#21 2017-04-25 14:02:52

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Re: Rebrand contact form plugin

Bloke wrote #305480:

[…] It’s a plugin, it still needs a prefix. […]

Ok, that’s what I thought, so I would be ok for a name change (but I honestly wouldn’t have a lot of changes to apply on my side), and for now I would vote for smd_form or smd_user_form.


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#22 2017-04-25 14:30:50

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Re: Rebrand contact form plugin

smd_ or pub_ prefix would be fine by me. The docs prefix list seems to indicate that pub_ is a community built plugin – which I guess this plugin is now if you don’t want to adopt it directly Stef (which of course you are quite welcome to do or not).

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#23 2017-04-25 14:51:23

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Re: Rebrand contact form plugin

Well I’ve kind of adopted it, but the author is still ‘Txp community’. What we could do I suppose (if GitHub allow it) is to move / fork development to our own ‘textpattern’ GitHub channel and then either:

  1. manage PRs as we do now and release updates.
  2. invite any community members with a GitHub account who want to contribute to its development to be able to commit directly.

Either would be good. Or a mix of both. It would then free it from my direct control, and make it more of a community plugin deserving of the (currently unused) pub_ prefix (or something similar, if we feel that ‘pub’ might be confused with pub-sub-hub).


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#24 2017-04-25 14:54:02

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Re: Rebrand contact form plugin

Bloke wrote #305486:

Well I’ve kind of adopted it, but the author is still ‘Txp community’. What we could do I suppose (if GitHub allow it) is to move / fork development to our own ‘textpattern’ GitHub channel…

That would be nice, I could then see about doing that Composer package for it.

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