php-form-helper
A PHP 5.3 Form helper class that stays out of your markup.
@4d47 (author of the original version from which this was forked and modified) puts it well: "It's late, I can't sleep, and I'm sick of those uselessly complicated form classes out there."
Features
- No html elements rendering
- No validators
- No form decorators
- No widgets
- No extensions
- No documentation (just look at the
sample.phpfile)
Jordan Lev's modifications in this fork:
- Fields can have more than 1 error at a time
- Fields are declared separately from validations (because there isn't always a 1:1 correlation)
- All validations are handled within a single function (to allow for more flexibility with the logic)
- Side benefit of the architectural change is that you can have a data model provide the field list and validation function, without it needing to know as much about how the Form class works (all it needs to know is that
$form->fieldgives you a value and$error->fieldadds an error) - Validation is handled explicitly by calling the validate() method on the form object (instead of always occurring during instantiation), so you can pre-populate a form with database data and not have it display errors
- Removed ability to easily subclass... you should just always pass everything into the constructor now
- Removed use of Exceptions because it prevented more than 1 error per field (and arguably is conceptually wrong -- see http://martinfowler.com/articles/replaceThrowWithNotification.html)
- Removed tests and composer files (because I didn't use them)