This is not a rant about Bernhard Schussek's work on the Form/Validation components. I do really appreciate that he has spent thousands of hours making Symfony better, and as a community we must be really proud to have such a brilliant guy on our side.

The problem

Two years ago Symfony2 launched with a good but unfinished Form component. Today Symfony2 has a better, but still unfinished, Form component. The foundations of the component are solid but, in my opinion, it lacks the following features needed for real-world applications:

• CAPTCHA (custom-made or integrating the reCAPTCHA service).
• Dependent <select> lists (it doesn't have to be generic, supporting two dependent lists is enough).
• Multi-step forms.
• Client validation (automatically applying the validation constraints with JavaScript)

Just look for example at the Gmail registration form. Although it's a not so complex form, it's not easy to do it with Symfony, because it's multi-step, it uses fancy JavaScript client validation, it includes a CAPTCHA and it has some dependent fields (not <select> lists).

My proposal

Let Bernhard keep working on the foundations on the component and let's organize a community effort to add the previous features to the Symfony 2.X Form Component.