Comments on: FormBuilder: HTML forms made simple

By: Gnik Nalu

Gnik Nalu — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:37:33 +0000

Peeking @ the code I see a $field['defaultvalue'] mentioned. is this something that can be used to put in a ‘default value’ in a form? (Just being nosey.)

By: Gnik Nalu

Gnik Nalu — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:12:08 +0000

seems it removed html.

Let me restate a portion of what was above:

‘defaultvalue’ will be the text between the elements or in the value= so the form will have pre-filled in data.

By: Gnik Nalu

Gnik Nalu — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:10:44 +0000

Is there a way to pass a default value into the text forms from a variable? For example:

$contactForm->addField(array (
‘id’ => ‘guess_city’,
‘type’ => ‘textbox’,
‘label’ => ‘The City You Are In’,
‘required’ => false,
‘maxlength’ => 2,
‘defaultvalue’ => $guess_city,
‘headerinjectioncheck’ => ‘full’
));

‘defaultvalue’ will be the text between the or in the value= so the form will have pre-filled in data.

Thx for formbuilder – it is TOTALLY AWESOME

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:16:27 +0000

@Tobias – Agreed! There’s a limit to how flexible my script is, and for complex form layouts you are better off rolling your own.

By: Tobias

Tobias — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:04:06 +0000

@Jonathan: Well that might be one way, but I found it not worth the effort. the script is nice if you need what it does, so I still use it now and then but for more “complicated” forms, i’ll stick to my own forms.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:49:49 +0000

@Tobias – I can’t immediately think of a way to achieve what you want. You should be able to style individual fields via CSS, since each field has an id – for instance you could make the postcode field shorter. But targeting field labels would be trickier. If you used javascript (maybe jquery) you might be able to attach CSS classes to specific label, dd or dt elements and wrestle more control over the way they are styled.

By: Tobias

Tobias — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:26:10 +0000

Hi, i found it difficult to adjust the form. Example:
I have these 2 related fields: postalcode and city. Here in the Netherlands PC is only 6chars, so i fully width field would be stupid. Therefore I would like to combine PC and City at one height. But of course, keep the input fields seperated.

PC + City [input filed] __ [longer input field]

Because all dd’s and dt’s are styled the sameway I wonder if it’s possible at all… Please contact me, your formbuilder rocks ass! really

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:18:59 +0000

Thank you for your reply, I’ll give that a go… reCaptcha might be a good service to consider – http://recaptcha.net

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:23:06 +0000

@Phil – I actually have plans to add CAPTCHA to FormBuilder, but you could also achieve what you want by adding your own custom validation, something like this:

if($contactForm->isSubmitted()){
if ($_POST['captcha'] != ‘7′){
$contactForm->forceErrorMessage(‘captcha’,'Your error message here’);
}
}

Have a look at the source of my demo and you’ll see an example of the isSubmitted method.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:52:38 +0000

Is is possible to add another validationtype for text fields, where the field has to be equal to x… so that a rudimentary captcha can be added… eg. “Please type the value 3+4″ … so the user has to input the number 7.