Laravel Field Types

The package adds a simple API to Laravel projects to create templated form fields that automatically populates inline error messages, help text and accessibility tags. It is not designed to be a full form manager, instead it removes the repetition when creating form based UIs.

Requirements

• PHP 5.5+
• Laravel 5.1+

Installation

Add the following to your composer.json file and run composer update.

"require": {
    "rootstudio/laravel-field-types": "^1.0"
},
"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "git",
        "url": "[email protected]:RootStudio/Laravel-Field-Types.git"
    }
]

Next add the service provider to the config/apps.php:

RootStudio\RootForms\RootFormServiceProvider::class,

Finally the facade to the aliases config:

'RootForms' => RootStudio\RootForms\Facades\RootForm::class,

Using the package

The package gives the ability to quickly add the following field types:

• text
• email
• tel
• password
• checkbox set
• radio set
• select
• file
• toggle
• confirm

For example, to create a simple text fields:

{!! RootForms::text('name', 'Your name', old('name')) !!}
{!! RootForms::email('login', 'Your email', old('login')) !!}
{!! RootForms::password('password', 'Your password') !!}

Note: password field types do not accept a value parameter

You can optionally include additional classes or attributes:

{!! RootForms::text('name', 'Your name', old('name'), 'js-autosuggest', ['required' => true]) !!}

Multiple choice fields use a similar syntax:

{!! RootForms::select('country', 'Shipping destination', ['uk' => 'United Kingdom', 'usa' => 'United States'], old('country')) !!}
{!! RootForms::radio_set('method', 'Shipping method', ['standard' => 'Royal Mail', 'priority' => 'FedEx'], old('method')) !!}
{!! RootForms::checkbox_set('extras', 'Include the following', ['gift' => 'Gift Wrap', 'sms' => 'SMS Notifications'], old('extras')) !!}

Boolean fields do not take additional options, only true or false:

{!! RootForms::toggle('send_emails', 'Would you like to be emailed?', old('send_emails')) !!}
{!! RootForms::confirm('terms_agreement', 'Have you read the terms & conditions?', old('terms_agreement')) !!}

If you need to set some help text, for example to let users know what data can be entered into a field, the hint() method can be called before the field.

{!! RootForms::hint('Files must be png, jpg or gif. Files cannot exceed 2mb in size.') !!}
{!! RootForms::file('avatar', 'Profile photo') !!}

Customising

The package templates are built for Bootstrap v4. If you wish to customise these and use your own styling and classes the views can be published using artisan:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="RootStudio\RootForms\RootFormsServiceProvider" --tag="views"

To change the location of the view files export the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="RootStudio\RootForms\RootFormsServiceProvider" --tag="config"