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jdz/form
========

Framework-agnostic form building, filtering and validation library

1.0.3(1mo ago)019↓66.7%2MITPHPPHP >=8.2

Since Feb 11Pushed 1mo agoCompare

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JDZ Form
========

[](#jdz-form)

A framework-agnostic PHP library for building, filtering and validating forms.

Features
--------

[](#features)

- 🧱 **Rich field set**: text, email, url, tel, password, search, number, date/datetime/time/month/week/year, color, file, hidden, checkbox, radio, select, textarea
- 🧹 **Filters**: normalize input before validation (string, int, decimal, bool, array, email, url, tel, date, time, color, or a custom callback)
- ✅ **Rules**: declarative validation with typed error handling
- 🗂️ **Structure**: group fields into fieldsets and form rows (including boolean, checkboxes, input-group and hidden rows)
- 🔒 **CSRF & captcha**: opt-in per form
- 🔗 **Fluent API**: chainable configuration, framework-agnostic rendering via `toData()`
- ✅ **Well tested**: 285 tests

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require jdz/form
```

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 8.2 or higher

Quick start
-----------

[](#quick-start)

```
use JDZ\Form\Form;
use JDZ\Form\FormData;

$form = new Form('contact');

$fieldset = $form->makeFormFieldset('main');
// add fields / rows to the fieldset, each with its filters and rules

// bind submitted values and run the lifecycle
$form->init(new FormData($_POST));

if ($form->submit()) {
    // $form->filter();  normalize
    // $form->validate(); apply rules
    if (!$form->getErrors()) {
        // persist $form->getData()
    }
}
```

Forms expose their state through `toData()`, so rendering is left entirely to the consuming application (Twig, plain PHP, an admin UI layer, etc.).

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

```
composer test
```

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 88% of packages

Maintenance90

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity51

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~49 days

Total

4

Last Release

46d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5e83e3701566e43438525ed14578487e732b849d152b5071aa1613a0dad96913?d=identicon)[jdz](/maintainers/jdz)

---

Top Contributors

[![joffreydemetz](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15113527?v=4)](https://github.com/joffreydemetz "joffreydemetz (26 commits)")

---

Tags

validationcoreformfilteringJDZ

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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