Problem Description

Standalone forms are forms not connected to content, such as in portlets, a contact us form, search form etc.

Options

There are three ways to make them.

• TTW using PloneFormGen.
  
• Hand coding the form and using browserviews as a controller.
• Using formlib or something else to autogenerate the form and widgets.

Different approaches

.  z3c.form is a "lessons learned" from zope.formlib library.  It's more versatile, better documented, and easier to use.  Usage within Plone requires the plone.z3cform package, which is available as an egg in PyPI.

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