Dynamic Templates with Dialog Helpers

[moniuch]

I would vote to extend templates and make them dynamic through the usage of popup dialog helper. The dialog would:

• contain user-configurable form
• go through validation & error display
• implement ui dependencies
• return html from a function, given formState hash.

This would allow a web site builder to provide client with smart templates that would react to web editor input.

Enclosed please find a very rudimentary example of what it would do. Validation and error handling aspects are not polished at this moment - subject to further development upon feature approval.

[moniuch]

preliminary syntax

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

This would be an interesting feature, although its not currently possible in such simple form because of dialogs. Template definition would have to contain a full dialog definition what makes this whole concept to heavy, because it's easier to create a new plugin which opens dialog and does the same. However, in the future it may be possible if the dialog system will be simplified.

[Matti Järvinen]

Widgets would seem a good fit for this. Currently we are using widgets to manage responsive layouts the downside is that we cannot use any widgets within layout widgets.