[Zope3-Users] Email application form causing despair!

[Graham Stratton]

I have a seemingly simple problem.  I want to provide a web form which 
is emailed off on submission.  I'd like to do some validation before it 
is emailed off.

*snip saga involving much of formlib and browser:form*

On much reflection, I think what I probably want to do is to implement 
an 'email form' content type, which has an address to email the form to, 
and a schema, and then use the formlib machinery to produce and validate 
a form from this.  Is this the right way to go?  I can't work out how I 
can use any of the higher-level formlib code.  Will I need to render one 
widget at a time and do my own validation?  Or is there something useful 
in zope.app.form?

I guess in the longer term it would make sense to make my schema 
persistent and based on the mutable schema implementation.  How might I 
go about that?  I did play a bit with the mutable schema utility, but I 
got errors when trying to add Text and TextLine fields.   I also don't 
really understand why it's a utility anyway.  Does it offer a way to 
edit any persistent schema?

I'm feeling very lost, I hope someone can point me in the right 
direction.  Thanks for the all the support.

Regards,

Graham