jenwachter / html-form

v0.8.4 2026-08-03 13:02 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.3.2

Requires (Dev)

• php-mock/php-mock-phpunit: ^1.1
• phpunit/phpunit: ^4.8

MIT

• Jen Wachter

• form
• validation

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-08-03 13:06 UTC

README

Hate writing and validating HTML forms? Me too. The HTML Form library was designed to make creating, validating, and maintaining forms easier.

Requirements

1. PHP >= 5.3.2
2. Sessions enabled (if you want the form fields to repopulate)

Installation

Via Composer:

{
    "require": {
        "jenwachter/html-form": "0.3.*"
    }
}

Documentation

See below for basic usage or see the wiki.

Basic Usage

// Create the form
$form = new \HtmlForm\Form();

// Add a fieldset
$fieldset = $form->addFieldset("Contact info");

// Add some form fields
$fieldset->addTextbox("name", "Your name", array("required" => true))
	->addEmail("email", "Your email", array("required" => true))
	->addNumber("age", "Your age")
	->addSelect("gender", "Your gender", array("male", "female"));

$form->addSubmit("submit", "Submit");

// Render the form
$form->display();

// Validate the form
if (isset($_POST["submit"]) && $form->isValid()) {
    // continue processing the form as you see fit
}

Changelog

• 0.8

  • Added server-side validation for maxlength attribute

• 0.7

  • Moved location of help text to after label for accessibility

• 0.6.2

  • Added htmlspecialchars method

• 0.6.1

  • Bugfix

• 0.6

  • Added striptags sanitizer

• 0.5

  • Moved validation functions into element classes.
  • Added sanitizer class

• 0.4

  • Removed $_GET support
  • Improved unit tests

• 0.3.3

  • Removed label from honeypot

• 0.3.2

  • Removed rendering of global beforeElement and afterElement content before and after bits of HTML.

• 0.3.1

  • Bug fix

• 0.3

  • Added a flag that allows option form fields to use the numeric keys of the options array as the option field's value. Issue #13

• 0.2

  • Method name changes in HtmlForm\Form:
    • render() is now display()
    • compileForm() is now render()

• 0.1

  • Initial release