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MvcCore form extension with input field types text, email, password, search, tel, url and textarea field.

Installation

composer require mvccore/ext-form-field-text

Fields And Default Validators

• input:text, input:search
  • SafeString
    • configured by default
    • XSS string protection to safely display submitted value in response, configured by default
  • MinMaxLength
    • not configured by default
    • validation by PHP mb_strlen() for min. and max.
  • Pattern
    • not configured by default
    • validation by PHP preg_match()
• input:password (extended from input:text)
  • Password
    • not configured by default
    • validation by configurable password strength rules
  • SafeString, MinMaxLength, Pattern - not configured by default, ...description above
• input:email (extended from input:text)
  • Email
    • configured by default
    • single/multiple email form validation by PHP filter_var($rawValue, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
  • SafeString, MinMaxLength, Pattern - not configured by default, ...description above
• input:tel (extended from input:text)
  • Tel
    • configured by default
    • validation for not allowed chars in phone number, no validation for international phone number form
  • SafeString, MinMaxLength, Pattern - not configured by default, ...description above
• input:url (extended from input:text)
  • Url
    • configured by default
    • url validation by regular expression, SSRF save value, optional DNS validation and many other options
  • SafeString, MinMaxLength, Pattern - not configured by default, ...description above
• textarea
  • SafeString - configured by default
  • MinMaxLength, Pattern - not configured by default, ...description above

Features

• always server side checked attributes required, disabled and readonly
• all HTML5 specific and global atributes (by Mozilla Development Network Docs)
• every field has it's build-in specific validator described above
• every build-in validator adds form error (when necessary) into session and than all errors are displayed/rendered and cleared from session on error page, where user is redirected after submit
• any field is possible to render naturally or with custom template for specific field class/instance
• very extensible field classes - every field has public template methods:
  • SetForm() - called immediatelly after field instance is added into form instance
  • PreDispatch() - called immediatelly before any field instance rendering type
  • Render() - called on every instance in form instance rendering process
    • submethods: RenderNaturally(), RenderTemplate(), RenderControl(), RenderLabel() ...
  • Submit() - called on every instance when form is submitted

Examples

• Example - CD Collection (mvccore/example-cdcol)
• Application - Questionnaires (mvccore/app-questionnaires)

Basic Example

$form = (new \MvcCore\Ext\Form($controller))->SetId('demo');
...
$username = new \MvcCore\Ext\Forms\Fields\Text();
$username
	->SetName('username')
	->SetPlaceHolder('User');
$password = new \MvcCore\Ext\Forms\Fields\Password([
	'name'			=> 'password',
	'placeHolder'	=> 'Password',
	'validators'	=> ['Password'],
]);
...
$form->AddFields($username, $password);