Pear, Quickform & Smarty templates demonstration and example

Quick overview

Please look here for a quick overview of QuickForm2 & Smarty templates.

Demonstration

These pages are intended as a quick demo of QuickForm2 & Smarty templates, to convince you that is it worth your time to learn more about them.
The QuickForm2 documentation is sparse.

Notes:

• run these samples in the order below, for each the source code is available.
• explanations may be removed where the explanation exists in an earlier example.
• this talks about QuickForm2, the previous version QuickForm has dependencies that do not work with modern PHP.

Demonstration	Smarty template	Php code QuickForm2
Simple QuickForm2		Qf2Simple.php
QuickForm2 with data validation		Qf2Valid.php
QuickForm2 with Smarty	QfSmarty.tpl	Qf2Smarty.php

QuickForm2

This is a rewrite of QuickForm, it needs PHP 5.2 or later.

• Both QuickForm and QuickForm2 versions use the same smarty templates (where appropriate).
• It is documented https://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.html.html-quickform2.php
• QuickForm2 now does does support client side (javascript) field checking - yahey!
• To use the QuickForm2 code you will need the renderer: HTML/QuickForm2/Renderer.php. It should be installed somewhere like: /usr/share/pear/HTML/QuickForm2/Renderer/Smarty.php
• It was submitted to PEAR for inclusion as a package see: Proposal for "HTML_QuickForm2_Renderer_Smarty", but was rejected.

To see one of every input field that QuickForm2 handles see Qf2ValidTypes.php & the same done with smarty Qf2ValidTypesSm.php with the templates Qf2ValidTypes.tpl and Qf2ValidTypesByElement.tpl. These should be regarded work in progress.

You may also find the stylesheets Qf2Style.css & Qf2StyleSm.css useful.

License and copyright

All description & sample files copyright (c) 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2023 Parliament Hill Computers. Author: Alain D D Williams.

You may used these files as the basis your own (or organisation's/company's) project(s) (under whatever licence that you see fit). You may not claim ownership or copyright of any substantially unmodified files. Acknowledgement would be appreciated, but is not necessary.

These demonstrations are made available in the hope that they are useful. There may be errors: there is no warranty at all, use at your own risk.