README

depage-forms is PHP library for HTML form generation with focus on usability. It is part of the upcoming version of depage-cms, but it also works as a standalone library. By abstracting HTML, browser flaws (duplicate form submissions) and form validation, it provides a comfortable way to obtain reliable and validated data from users.

Features

validation
- server side
- client side (jQuery Tools)
- available for standard input elements
- customizable with regular expressions
- basic CSRF protection
HTML5 form features
- attributes : placeholder, autofocus, textbox datalists, title, pattern
- input elements : boolean (checkbox), email, hidden, multiple (checkbox, select list), number, password, range, search, single (radio, select list), tel, text, textarea, url
richtext element (wysiwyg HTML editor)
averts form resubmission
divide forms into ѕeparate parts
neat return values with appropriate data types
easy language localisation
session timeout
simple creditcard validation (by values)
unit tested

Prerequisites

PHP 5.3
jQuery >=1.4.3 (optional, for client side validation and richtext field)

Introduction

You can get a basic introduction at: depage-forms: html5 forms made easy (part I)
How to do Form Validation depage-forms: validation of html5 forms (part II)

Download

http://www.depage.net/downloads/depage-forms-latest.zip

Install Using Composer

Get composer at http://getcomposer.org and then just add this to your composer.json.

{
    "require": {
        "depage/htmlform": "*"
    }
}

Now run

composer install

to install the current version of depage-htmlform into your vendor dir.

For more information

You can fork us at: http://github.com/depage/depage-forms/
You find the documentation at: http://docs.depage.net/depage-forms/
For more information about depage-cms go to: http://www.depagecms.net/
if you want to support with development More info

depage / htmlform

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