Markup

This is a small class for creating forms quickly in PHP. Easy to use with Twitter Bootstrap.

Opening a Form

For opening a form you can use Form::open('url/to/go', $attributes);

$attributes is an array used in the HTML tag. The defaults are:

[
    'method' => 'POST',
    'file' => false,
    'class' => null,
    'accept-charset' => 'UTF-8',
];

If you set 'file' to true it will ctreate a

tag. Besides you can add any attribute (like id) in the array.

To close a form just use Form::close();.

Create Inputs

Let's begin with creating a simple text input:

Form::text('username', 'Your username', $default, ['class' => 'my-class']); 

generates the following:

<div class="input-text">
  <label for="username">Your username</label>
  <input type="text" name="username" value="My Default" class="my-class">
</div>

The attributes are in order

• The name attribute of the input
• A label
• A default value (use null if it has to be empty)
• An array of attributes for the input tag. You can use them with key => value as seen above or just add values without a key (like disabled).

If you just want to get the input tag without a label and the wrapper you can use

Form::textInput('username', $default, ['class' => 'my-class']);

If you just want to get rid of the label, set the second argument to null.

The are more inputs using the same syntax:

• Form::textarea($name, $label, $input, $attributes)
• Form::email($name, $label, $input, $attributes)
• Form::password($name, $label, $attributes) (Without default value)
• Form::file($name, $label, $attributes) (Without default value)
• Form::textarea($name, $input, $attributes) (Without label)

More inputs

Form::select($name, $options, $default, $attributes); creates a select tag. $options is an array of selectable options with $value => $name. You can set $default with one of the $value names.

Form::radio($name, $value, $description, $checked, $attributes); creates a radio button. $checked is a boolean.

Form::checkbox(§name, $label, $value, $checked); created a checkbox. Defaults are: $value = 1, $checked = 0

Submitting a Form

Form::submit('Submit', 'success'); creates the following:

<div class="input-submit">
  <button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">
</div>

The class is completed with 'btn-'.

If you want to get rid of the wrapper you can use Form::submitButton('submit', 'success');