FormHandler - Manual / Getting Started / Introduction

Manual / Getting Started / Introduction

Introduction

Description:

FormHandler is a PHP written "module" which allows you to create dynamic forms in an easy way. So easy that you can build a fully working form, including field validations, within 10 lines!

Why is FormHandler Built?

Around 2002 Teye Heimans, 21 years came to the conclusion that at least 40% of his webapplications applications consists of forms. To write all these forms is an irritating and time-taking job. That's why He made the FormHandler.
In the beginning it was a simple class which could generate some fields. After sharing it with some friends he decided to put it on the internet. Version 1 is downloaded over 5000 times and version 3 over 15000 time (Version 2 was never launched, it was too complex).

In 2007 Teye decided he didn't have the time to maintain this package and placed a news item about selling the package on this site. Since a lot of our projects are depending on FH3, we wanted to ensure FormHandler stayed in good hands so PHP-GLOBE became owner of this package.

Some advantages of FormHandler

With FormHandler you can:

Very easy to generate a form

Easy to save/edit data from a database

Easy to validate the values

You can use templates!

The form is generated by the XHTML 1.0 standard

Possibility to change to style of the form

Possibility to add CSS / Javascript to the fields

There can be generated special fields (like datefields)

It's very easy to upload files

Possibility to generate an online text editor!

It's completely FREE!

Sounds good huh? So, what are the requirements?

To use the FormHandler you must have a webserver with PHP version 4.0.6 or higher installed. To use some fields the visitor needs to have a browser which supports JavaScript.
If you want to use the database options of the class, you need a database.

How does the FormHandler actually work?

The FormHandler generates a form and shows this to the visitor. After the visitor has filled in his "data" the form is sent (to itself). The class validates the values (if wanted, with your own validate function).
When all the data is correct, the data is saved (if wanted) and your 'commit after form' function is called. In this function you can do whatever you want...

Latest change: 17 March 10 / 09:26

Manual / Getting Started / Introduction

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