UForm is a form validation/filtering/rendering library that solve all the problems you encounter with web forms.

Why another form library ? Because the other I tryed had limitations. This library is an effort to make something more flexible and at the same time very concrete.

Why concrete ? Because a form library should be as simple as possible in many aspects : creation, validation, data binding, rendering, etc...

• Fluent form builder to make form creation as painless as possible
• Structure aware form : you can structure your inputs in columns, tabs, panels... with no impact of the data processing
• Flexible and extensible rendering : you are free to you the native html render, the bootstrap render, the foundation render, or to write your one render from scratch or by extending an existing one.
• Validation message translation (wip)

Project is under heavy development and doc will come when the api will be frozen or more stable.

Here is an example of how the library works :

use UForm\Builder;


$form = 
     // initialize the form with aciton and method
    Builder::init("action", "POST")
     // Add some input text with some validation rules
    ->text("firstname", "Firstname")->required()->stringLength(2, 20) 
    ->text("lastname", "Lastname")->required()->stringLength(2, 20)
    ->text("login", "Login")->required()->stringLength(2, 20)
    // Add an input password
    ->password("password", "Password")->required()->stringLength(2, 20)
    // Get the form instance
    ->getForm();



if (isset($_POST)) {
    //If its a post query we validate the form with the post data
    $formContext = $form->validate($_POST);
    if ($formContext->isValid()) {
        $filteredData = $formContext->getData();
        // Do some logic with data
    }
} else {
    // Or else we just generate a context with empty values
    $formContext = $form->generateContext([]);
}

// We want to render some html for bootstrap 3
$render = new Bootstrap3Render();
$html = $render->render($formContext);

echo $html;

Thanks to @andresgutierrez for the Phalcon form component that served as inspiration for this one.