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Civicrm goes to great effort to create customized forms by just entering some additional texts into the database.

The drawback of this approach: Whenever this customization is not enough, real problems start. It is hard to see, how things fit together, the effort to learn the intricacies of the design is steep. Then comes the translation of texts. Despite efforts to finish the translation in pootle, my forms still bristle with English remnants.


I would like to propose a different approach for all those, that are not served with the ready made solution:

Provide the bare framework api's to functions like event registration, provide api's to special functions like payment processors. Then let the implementator create his own logic, write his own template in the language he needs and he will be happy, finished in half the time and produce a much better result. (I made my experience with paid event registration, it was not really encouraging).

If I should be crashing open doors, I like to hear what I possibly have missed.

Yes, I will take a shot at it. I will contact you on IRC. Thanks for your help in advance.