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[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) 4. / 5. billiemead/activeecommerce-form-builder ActiveLibrary[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) billiemead/activeecommerce-form-builder ======================================= Active eCommerce CMS Add-on for Creating a Drag-and-Drop Form Builder Using JQuery Form Builder 2.0.x-dev(5y ago)161JavaScript Since Mar 16Pushed 4y ago1 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/billiemead/activeecommerce-form-builder)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/billiemead/activeecommerce-form-builder)[ RSS](/packages/billiemead-activeecommerce-form-builder/feed)WikiDiscussions 1.0 Synced yesterday READMEChangelogDependenciesVersions (2)Used By (0) ActiveEcommerce CMS Form Builder Add-on Package =============================================== [](#activeecommerce-cms-form-builder-add-on-package) A [Laravel](https://laravel.com) package for creating a drag-and-drop form builder using the [JQuery Form Builder](https://formbuilder.online). *Note: Features like email, registration and file uploads are disabled in the demo* Screenshot: The forms fields are saved as json and stored in your database. A member of your site can create, edit and delete forms. Forms belong to the users that created them and each form has a unique link that can be shared publicly. The json version of the form can be used to render the form for users to fill. Example Json Form: ``` [{"type":"header","subtype":"h1","label":"Demo Form 01"},{"type":"paragraph","subtype":"p","label":"This demo form is a potluck sign-up sheet"},{"type":"text","label":"Name","className":"form-control","name":"name","subtype":"text"},{"type":"radio-group","label":"Food Category","name":"foodcategory","other":true,"values":[{"label":"Appetizer","value":"Appetizer"},{"label":"Beverage","value":"Beverage"},{"label":"Salad","value":"Salad"},{"label":"Main","value":"Main"},{"label":"Dessert","value":"Dessert"}]},{"type":"number","label":"How many will it serve","className":"form-control","name":"numberserved","min":"1","max":"50","step":"1"},{"type":"text","label":"Dish Name","className":"form-control","name":"dishname","subtype":"text"},{"type":"checkbox-group","label":"Dietary Restrictions","description":"Which of the following does your dish contain?","name":"dietaryrestrictions","values":[{"label":"Alcohol","value":"Alcohol"},{"label":"Carbs","value":"Carbs"},{"label":"Dairy","value":"Dairy"},{"label":"Egg","value":"Egg"},{"label":"Fish","value":"Fish"},{"label":"Gluten","value":"Gluten"}]},{"type":"textarea","label":"Comment","className":"form-control","name":"comment","subtype":"textarea"}] ``` Form permission options - Public - anyone can submit the form without needing to login - Private - only authenticated members of your site can access the form. Provide the option for users to edit their previous submissions. Requirements ------------ [](#requirements) - Laravel 5.7 - MySQL - [Laravel Authentication](https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/authentication) - php artisan make:auth Dependencies Included with Package ---------------------------------- [](#dependencies-included-with-package) - jQuery UI - User interface actions built on jQuery. [View jQuery ui Documentation](https://jqueryui.com/) - jQuery Formbuilder - Drag and drop full-featured form editing. [View jQuery Formbuilder Documentation](https://formbuilder.online) - clipboard.js - Copy text to clipboard. [View Clipboard Documentation](https://clipboardjs.com/) - parsley.js - JavaScript form validation library. [View Parsley Documentation](http://parsleyjs.org/) - moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates and times in JavaScript. [View Moment Documentation](https://momentjs.com/) - footable - A responsive table plugin built on jQuery and made for Bootstrap. [View FooTable Documentation](https://fooplugins.github.io/FooTable/) - sweetalert - A beautiful replacement for site error/warning/confirmation messages. [View SweetAlert Documentation](https://sweetalert.js.org/) Installation Instructions ------------------------- [](#installation-instructions) This custom package takes a couple steps to install but I will try to make it as simple as possible. ### Step One: [](#step-one) Edit your composer.json file manually or simply type ``` composer require billiemead/activeecommerce-form-builder ``` ### Step Two: [](#step-two) Ensure you have all your dependencies installed ``` composer install ``` *Note: The package will automatically register itself using [Laravel's](https://laravel.com) package discovery feature for versions 5.6 and above. This means you do not need to update your config/app.php file.* ### Step Three: [](#step-three) We need to add the additional database tables so run the following command ``` php artisan migrate ``` ### Step Four: [](#step-four) Create the form package's configuration file. This will place a formbuilder.php file in your config folder. In the configuration file you can change the url path for the package's routes, layout template to use and script / style output sections. Run the following command: ``` php artisan vendor:publish --tag formbuilder-config ``` ### Step Five: [](#step-five) Update your blade template file. In the default laravel install the template file is located here: /resources/views/layouts/app.blade.php You need to add tags for the new styles and scripts At the top of the blade file, just above the closing head tag: ``` @stack('styles') ``` At the bottom of the blade file, just above the closing the closing body tag: ``` @stack('scripts') ``` *Note: If you ever need to change which files are called using these @stack values, you can update the config file.* ### Step Six: [](#step-six) Publish the custom blade view files by running ``` php artisan vendor:publish --tag formbuilder-views ``` Publish the public assets by running ``` php artisan vendor:publish --tag formbuilder-public ``` Or you can publish everything at once with ``` php artisan vendor:publish --provider="billiemead\FormBuilder\FormBuilderServiceProvider" ``` ### Step Seven: [](#step-seven) In order to properly link to attachments, you need to run the storage:link command which makes the storage folder publicly accessibly ``` php artisan storage:link ``` Accessing The Application ------------------------- [](#accessing-the-application) Ta Da! You did it! Now to access the form application. To view submissions: Using The Trait --------------- [](#using-the-trait) You can access forms and submissions that belong to a user in your application. To use the trait add a use statement to your user model class. ``` use billiemead\FormBuilder\Traits\HasFormBuilderTraits; class User extends Authenticatable { use HasFormBuilderTraits; } ``` You can now access the user's forms and submissions by running ``` $user = User::first(); // get the user's forms $user->forms; // get the user's submissions $user->submissions; // or use static methods on the billiemead\FormBuilder\Models\Form class $user_forms = Form::getForUser($user); // returns a paginated resultset // the billiemead\FormBuilder\Models\Submission class also has a static method for getting the submissions // that belong to a user $my_submissions = Submission::getForUser($user); // returns a paginated resultset ``` Using Events ------------ [](#using-events) The package dispatches a number of events when records are created or updated so that you can listen to these events and perform custom tasks in your application's logic Precautions ----------- [](#precautions) 1. Make sure you have a table name USERS with a column id {bigSignedInteger} in your database. 2. Once you have submission(s) on a form , dont attempt to edit the form again bacause it will break the display of earlier submissions. ### Health Score 20 — LowBetter than 14% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity7 Limited adoption so far Community8 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity38 Early-stage or recently created project Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. 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