Form Generation Library

[eluser]macigniter[/eluser]
[quote author="Muser" date="1253185287"]
I think this library it is very interesting, but is it possible to manage the form field positions on the view file?

Or at this moment the only layout is to attach one field another one?

I would be able to manage where to render the form field in the view.

Is it possible??[/quote]

Hey there, it actually is. Just use the method

Code:

$this->form
->text('username', 'Username')
->password('pass', 'Password')
->submit();

// ... validation and stuff

$data['form'] = $this->form->get_array();

which allows you to do this in the view file (and feel free to place these tags wherever you want):

Code:

<form action="<?=$form['action']?>" method="post">
<input type="text" name="username" value="<?=$form['username']?>" /><?=$form['username_error']?>
<input type="password" name="password" value="<?=$form['pass']?>" /><?=$form['pass_error']?>
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>

It's a little double coding, but you could do it like this. The get_array() methods returns all values as an array where the keys are the element's names.

Also there are some special keys which are:

Code:

'form_open' returns the whole <form> opening tag
'form_close' returns the closing tag
'action' returns the action
'methdos' returns the method

This method is just there if you need to highly customize your form layout in a view file rather than outputting the whole form html via $this->form->get();

Hope that helps...