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Daff
Daff

Reputation: 44225

Form builder like Zend_Form_Html or ExtJS Form for JQuery

I was wondering if there is a JavaScript based HTML Form builder, similar to what you can do with Zend_Form_Html or with the ExtJS Forms but based on JQuery? There are several form related plugins but you still have to code every form manually. The idea is, that I usually only want to edit/add single entities from my Domain Model (e.g. in Doctrine with PHP), lets say a new user. I have the user as a JSON Object

{
    'username': 'John',
    'email': '[email protected]',
    'name': 'John Doe'
    'age': '33'
}

And I could also make some meta information available (e.g. the Database knows already that age must be an Integer so I already can attach that client side validator or display a nice number spinner).

{
    'entity': 'User',
    'email': 
        {
            'type': 'text',
            'validate': 'e-mail',
            'max_lengh': 255
        },
    'name': 
        {
            'type': 'text',
            'validate': 'string',
            'max_lengh': 255
        },
    'age': 
        {
            'type': 'spinner',
            'validate': 'integer',
            'range': [0, 120]
        }
}

With this information you could already build a scaffold form so that you only have to add/edit the additional information needed. On my quick search I unfortunately didn't find anything like that.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3120

Answers (2)

Daff
Daff

Reputation: 44225

Since nothing like this popped up yet, I started my own project on github (moved from Google code) called jquery.dform. It is a jQuery plugin for creating html forms via JSON.

Upvotes: 2

Sidmitra
Sidmitra

Reputation: 1212

I don't think there is one for jQuery that supports JSON input, but take a look at:

http://javascript.neyric.com/inputex/ for YUI

Upvotes: 1

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