wardany/dform

Dynamic form builder is a full module to inject new attributes to any model you want, and you can manipulate this new attributes in the backend, and many other features.

Dynamic Form Builder for yii2

Dynamic form builder is a full module to inject new attributes to any model you want, and you can manipulate this new attributes in the backend, and many other features., _(*1)

• add server/client side validations
• determine searchable attributes
• select the desired widget or input to be displayed in the form or search
• easy to search

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer., _(*2)

Either run, _(*3)

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist wardany/dynamic-form-builder "*"

or add, _(*4)

"wardany/dynamic-form-builder": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file., _(*5)

run migration, _(*6)

php yii migrate --migrationPath=@wardany/dform/migrations

add to your backend/config, _(*7)

'modules' => [
        'dynamic_form_builder' => [
            'class' => 'wardany\dform\DynamicFormBuilder',
        ],
],

now you can start add forms by going to the link /dynamic_form_builder/forms/index., _(*8)

Create models

to start use the form builder, for example you need to add attributes to the model Post - first create values table eg. 'posts_values', this table must contains the following columns: -- input_id (integer) // you may need to create foreign key to the table 'dynamic_form_inputs' -- value (text / json) - add relation to the Post model : public function getValues(){ return $this->hasMany(\wardany\dform\models\DynamicForm::className(), ['id' => 'input_id']) ->viaTable('post_values', ['post_id'=> 'id']); } - add DynamicFormBuilderBehavior to the Model public function behaviors() { return[ ... \wardany\dform\behaviors\DynamicFormBuilderBehavior::className(), ... ]; } - in the form page call the form drower widget <?= wardany\dform\widgets\InputViewerWidget::widget(['model'=> $model, 'form'=> $form]) ?> - add DynamicFormSearchBehavior to the search model public function behaviors() { return[ ... [ 'class'=> \wardany\dform\behaviors\DynamicFormSearchBehavior::className(), 'values_table'=> PostValues::tableName(), 'relation_input'=> 'post_id' ] ... ]; } - in the form page call the form drower widget <?= wardany\dform\widgets\SearchViewerWidget::widget(['model'=> $model, 'form'=> $form]) ?>, _(*9)