Yii2 Form Builder

A drag and drop form builder with jQuery for Yii2 which built upon to jQuery FormBuilder plugin.

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

composer.phar require meysampg/yii2-formbuilder "*"

or add

"meysampg/yii2-formbuilder": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Usage

Once the extension is installed, simply use it in your code by:

use meysampg\formbuilder\FormBuilder;

and use it as a widget:

<?= FormBuilder::widget(); ?>

Configurations

There are some properties that let you to easily control over form builder.

Property	Type	Description	Default Value
accessVariableName	string	JavaScript variable name for accessing to formbuilder contents in JS codes	`'formBuilderJsVariable'`
data	array	list of elements for rendering as default elements of form builder
dataType	string	indicates that input and output data must be XML or JSON	`'xml'`
elementType	string	HTML tag for form builder constructor	`'div'`
messages	array	list of label strings on a desired language
language	string	Desired language for showing form builder (See translation section)
options	array	list of plugin options, see FormBuilder Documentations
showActionButtons	boolean	indicates that control buttons be showed or not	`false`

Examples

<?= FormBuilder::widget([
    'data' => [
        [
            "type" => "header",
            "subtype" => "h1",
            "label" => "Header",
            "class" => "header",
        ],
        [
            "type" => "button",
            "label" => "Button",
            "subtype" => "button",
            "class" => "button-input btn btn-warning",
            "name" => "button-1475845417456",
            "style" => "warning",
        ],
    ],
]); ?>

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<?= FormBuilder::widget([
    'dataType' => 'json' 
]); ?>

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<?= FormBuilder::widget([
    'messages' => [
        "autocomplete" => "Autocomplete 23",
    ],
]); ?>

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<?= FormBuilder::widget([
    'language' => 'fa-IR',
]); ?>

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Translation

Simply copy en.php file in messages folder and rename it to your language (e.g. ar, fr, ...), translate strings, commit your changes and send a pull request.