Form Helpers

Trongate's form helpers let you easily build HTML forms without the tedium. Call a function. Get perfect HTML.

Zero config. Just functions:

• form_button() Generates a generic button that requires JavaScript to perform actions.
• form_checkbox() Outputs a checkbox input for binary choices.
• form_close() Closes the form and automatically injects a CSRF token.
• form_dropdown() Generates a select menu allowing single or multiple selections.
• form_email() Creates an email input with built-in browser validation.
• form_hidden() Adds hidden fields for data that should not be visible to users.
• form_input() Generates a standard text input field.
• form_number() Outputs a numeric input with browser-level validation and controls.
• form_open() Outputs the opening <form> tag and initializes a new form.
• form_open_upload() Opens a form configured for file uploads using multipart encoding.
• form_password() Produces a password field that masks user input.
• form_radio() Creates a radio button for mutually exclusive options.
• form_submit() Creates a submit button for sending form data to the server.
• form_textarea() Creates a multi-line text field for longer user input.
• post() Retrieves submitted POST, JSON, or multipart form data.
• validation_errors() Displays validation errors, supporting inline, grouped, or JSON output.

Building a Form

In a view file:

Output:

File Uploads

For forms that accept files, just use form_open_upload() instead of form_open(). It adds the required enctype="multipart/form-data" automatically. No extra arguments needed.

In a view file:

Output:

Adding Attributes

All form helpers accept an optional third parameter: an associative array of HTML attributes.

In a view file:

Output: