Infuse - Smart, OO, PHP form management

# README for Infuse
# Copyright (c) 2005 Infuse Project 
# Licensed under the GNU GPL. For full terms see the file COPYING.
# $Id: README,v 1.2 2005/01/28 00:57:00 ebullient Exp $

Infuse
http://infuse.sourceforge.net
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Infuse is a small, object-oriented library consisting of a handful of PHP classes
for managing form input, cookies, and/or session variables. 

Content Management Systems, Wikis, or other PHP-based weblications may find this
library handy:

  + It provides form validation.

    Regular expressions are used to specify basic input validation rules.
    When the input element is created, it reads the associated value
    from the environment (e.g. $_GET, $_POST) and verifies it against 
    the provided rule - the supplied value is only accepted if it passes.
    
    Objects can be queried to see if a value was provided, and if the value 
    was valid.

  + It separates application logic from page display
     
    Forms and form elements are created programmatically in application
    code (e.g. association of a textbox and a passwordbox with a login form)
    in order to verify and process submitted data. 

    The created form, with associated elements, can be passed to a templating
    engine, or used later in display code to render the required form.

  + It provides consistent form look and feel, with a minimum of code modification

    Defined constants provide a uniform default length and size for text areas,
    and text boxes. A single function on the form can render form submit/reset buttons
    in a uniform way. CSS classes and overrides for other display attributes 
    can be provided at display time.


Installation
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Use cvs, a nightly snapshot or a released tarball, and place the gathered
or extracted files in a directory that PHP can access.

Define the constant INFUSE_DIR with the full path for the infuse library,
including the trailing slash. 

e.g. Infuse library unpacked to /home/user/phplib/infuse:

define('INFUSE_DIR','/home/user/phplib/infuse/');

See test.php for usage examples.

History
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These clases were originally developed by Paul James 
as part of his project, FOOWD . 

They were subsequently combined with input management functions 
from the SquirrelMail project .

This breaks the input classes into their own project, for use in other
PHP applications.


Licensing: 
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This product is distributed under the GPL.  Please read through the file
COPYING for more information about our license.

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