PHP Form Processor

PHP Form Processor allows you to create forms on your website in minutes. It has standard validation checks built in, and you can easily extend the various classes to add your own.

Features

• A lot of standard validation checks
• Easily extendable classes to create your own custom fields
• Separated template files for easy altering of the form's HTML markup
• Google reCAPTCHA integration

Installation

PHP Form Processor is installed via Composer.

composer require pfp/php-form-processor

Initialization

After installing it through Composer, you will have to create your field parameters before initializing the form. For a full list of available fields and their parameters, please check out the list of fields page on the wiki.

$fields = array();

$fields['name'] = array(
	'label'    => 'Name',
	'type'     => 'text',
	'required' => true,
	'name'     => 'name',
);

$fields['email'] = array(
	'label'    => 'Email',
	'type'     => 'email',
	'required' => true,
	'name'     => 'email',
);

$fields['body'] = array(
	'label'    => 'Message',
	'type'     => 'textarea',
	'required' => true,
	'name'     => 'body',
);

$form_params = array(
	'fields' => $fields,
);

$form = new Pfp\PhpFormProcessor\form($form_params);

Display the form

After creating a new form object, you can print it out with the render_form method.

$form->render_form('submissions.php');

Submit the form

On the submissions page, you will have to initialize the form object again with the same parameters. You will also have to pass the form inputted data into the form in order for the validation functions to run.

$form->submit_form_data($_POST);

Validation

The plugin provides numerous validation checks to all the fields. See the full list of validation functions on the wiki.

Errors

If there are any errors after running the submit_form_data method, the errors and the submitted data is saved in the $_SESSION superglobal variable.

$form->print_errors();

Data Retrieval

Data is retrieved with the get_field_value method after submit_form_data. You will have to pass it the key from the fields array that was set during initialization.

$email = $form->get_field_value('email');