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The Form library is a complete replacement for the Form helper. It reads an XML document and converts it to an array (via the Xml Library).
Updates
2006-12-08:
* New version, some API changes (options in dropdowns are reversed from previous order!)
* Entire library has been cleaned up and optimized a bit
* Now integrates with the Uploader library to allow the creation of upload forms
2006-11-06:
* <required> is no longer needed, validation rules are used to find required fields
* Changed several bits, parse by fieldsets
* Changed the format of form templates
2006-11-04:
* Made validate() set the form values, no need to set them manually
* Tweaked the valid types and attributes
Features
- Built in validation using CI Validation
- 1 call data retrieval
- XHTML 1.0 output code
- written for PHP5 (not PHP4 compatible)
Usage
$this->load->library('form');
$this->form->load('login'); // Relative to APPPATH/data/forms/, ".xml" appended
if ($data = $this->form->post_data()) {
print_r($data);
}
else {
print $this->form->build();
}
Library Code
Sample Form:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<form action="user/login" name="user_login">
<fieldset name="User Login">
<username rules="trim|required|min_length[4]|max_length[32]|xss_clean">
<type>text</type>
<maxlength>32</maxlength>
</username>
<password rules="required|min_length[4]|max_length[32]|xss_clean">
<type>password</type>
<maxlength>32</maxlength>
</password>
<fieldset name="Submit">
<submit>
<type>submit</type>
<value>Login</value>
</submit>
</fieldset>
</fieldset>
</form>