jQuery's star rating plugin makes it simple to add a "Rate Me" interface to your application. Combine it with cfUniForm v4.0, and now it's ridiculously simple to add a star rating field (or ten) to any form.
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One of the improvements in the latest cfUniForm release is a change in behavior for the 'pluginSetup' attribute on the field tag. Even though this change does not break any old code, I still wanted to write a brief explanation of what the change is, why I made it, and how to make use of it.
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WOW! It has been a year already since cfUniForm v3.0 was released. I guess it's about time I made some serious upgrades, eh? Well, after a year of a few minor updates, I present to you cfUniForm v4.0, a major release with a number of new features and other updates to make it leaner and meaner.
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I sometimes get asked questions like "hey, man, how can I right-align labels with cfUniForm?" or "how can I change colors?", etc. The answer is: override the CSS! That's the entire purpose of Cascading Style Sheets. Here's a quick example of how to override a couple of default behaviors with the Uni-Form specification (which is what cfUniForm is a wrapper for).
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As noted in the cfUniForm documentation, Bob Silverberg's ValidateThis validation framework plays quite nicely with cfUniForm. However, there is one "gotcha" that I have been meaning to blog about for awhile now, but keep forgetting.
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I have just released cfUniForm v3.5, which can be downloaded from the riaforge project page. This latest version includes a couple of minor bug fixes as well as a new 'enctype' attribute for your form tag, which allows you to create your own upload fields without relying on the built-in type="file" field.
Be sure to check out the new multiple uploads demo as well as the updated FAQs page.
A big "thank you!" goes to Byron Raines for providing the use case for the multiple uploads (one I had not thought of) as well as submitting a couple of patches for bugs (related to providing an ID for individual fields).
Wow. I have been so busy with things lately that I just realized that I forgot to release the latest version of cfUniForm. Well, that and I finally took a much needed vacation. :-)
This release contains a handful of minor bug fixes and a few new features, most of which are from new contributors to the library! So let's take a quick glance under the hood.
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Posted on February 27, 2009 at 7:34 AM in
Uni-Form Tag Library
One of the questions that I have been asked repeatedly is
"Why does the cancel button still submit the form?"
Well, as of today, you have the option of changing that behavior.
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Posted on February 25, 2009 at 10:00 PM in
Uni-Form Tag Library
Well, after several months of getting no love, cfUniForm has seen a flurry of activity in the last week. This evening I have released the latest and greatest, v3.2, which addresses a couple of bugs and adds a brand new enhancement.
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Posted on February 22, 2009 at 9:10 PM in
Uni-Form Tag Library
I have just added a snippets folder to the cfUniForm download zip file with some basic snippets to help you build your cfUniForm-powered forms even faster. To use them, simply copy the folder to your CFEclipse install and refresh your snippets in CFE.