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I'm trying out some simple fuel scenarios and was hoping to avoid digging through the source code to find out how things work. This proves to be a bit difficult for some of the form/validation stuff: The fieldset class tells that "form markup is generated when passing the Fieldset instance to a View or by calling build().". I would conclude that this means creating the fieldset in the controller, populating it and then passing it to a view. Something like this in the controller:

$article_form = Fieldset::factory('article');
$title_field = $article_form->add('article_title');
$data['form'] = $article_form;
$this-response->body = View::factory('welcome/index', $data);

And in the view:

echo $form;

This echos the form as a literal string though, with characters like < and > changed to lt; and gt;, why is that? Another question is how to add other fields to the fieldset; the $article_form->add functions doesn't seem to have any 'type' parameter and is only meant for input boxes? Or does this need to be done separately through an extra $article_form->form() step? How would that work? Since the documentation of the fieldset class is a bit sparse, i was looking at this external article on forms and validation by Trevor Morris. He describes a similar situation, and explains why he chose to use the form and validation classes directly instead:

<div class="text email required">
    <label for="contact-email">Email <abbr title="Required">*</abbr></label>
    <?php echo Form::input('email', $validation->input('email'), array(
        'type'     => 'email',
        'id'       => 'contact-email',
        'required' => 'required'
    )); ?>
    <?php echo $validation->errors('email'); ?>
</div>

This seems straightword enough, but moving some 'controller logic' to the view seems unideal too?