jdz/form

Framework-agnostic form building, filtering and validation library

1.0.3 2026-07-08 20:18 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.2
• jdz/data: ^2.0
• jdz/htmlrenderer: ^1.0
• nesbot/carbon: ^2.0 || ^3.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.0

MIT

• Joffrey Demetz

• form
• validation
• core
• filtering
• JDZ

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-07-08 20:18 UTC

README

A framework-agnostic PHP library for building, filtering and validating forms.

Features

• 🧱 Rich field set: text, email, url, tel, password, search, number, date/datetime/time/month/week/year, color, file, hidden, checkbox, radio, select, textarea
• 🧹 Filters: normalize input before validation (string, int, decimal, bool, array, email, url, tel, date, time, color, or a custom callback)
• ✅ Rules: declarative validation with typed error handling
• 🗂️ Structure: group fields into fieldsets and form rows (including boolean, checkboxes, input-group and hidden rows)
• 🔒 CSRF & captcha: opt-in per form
• 🔗 Fluent API: chainable configuration, framework-agnostic rendering via toData()
• ✅ Well tested: 285 tests

Installation

composer require jdz/form

Requirements

• PHP 8.2 or higher

Quick start

use JDZ\Form\Form;
use JDZ\Form\FormData;

$form = new Form('contact');

$fieldset = $form->makeFormFieldset('main');
// add fields / rows to the fieldset, each with its filters and rules

// bind submitted values and run the lifecycle
$form->init(new FormData($_POST));

if ($form->submit()) {
    // $form->filter();  normalize
    // $form->validate(); apply rules
    if (!$form->getErrors()) {
        // persist $form->getData()
    }
}

Forms expose their state through toData(), so rendering is left entirely to the consuming application (Twig, plain PHP, an admin UI layer, etc.).

Testing

composer test

License

MIT — see LICENSE.