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mynameiszanders/yii-forms
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Extensions to Yii's form objects to help with view rendering.

2.0.1(12y ago)019MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

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Yii Forms
=========

[](#yii-forms)

*Version: 2.0.1*

A collection of component classes for Yii forms to provide cross-theme rendering of form inputs, without having to know the types of inputs that were defined in form configuration files. Since version 2.0.0 this repository is a [Composer](http://getcomposer.org "Dependency Manager for PHP") library package installable via [Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/mynameiszanders/yii-forms "The PHP package archivist."). Simply add it as a dependancy of your projects with `composer require mynameiszanders/yii-forms:2.*` or add the following to your `composer.json` configuration file:

```
"require": {
    "mynameiszanders/yii-forms": "2.*"
},
```

To use, simply use `application\components\Form` rather than `CForm` when creating an instance of the form builder. You might also want to read [the dummies guide](GUIDE.md) for building forms with the new classes. It's not great, and that's because I hate writing documentation (source comments, baby!) and managed to knock this out in 4 hours.

If you want to rename `application\components\ActiveForm`, make sure to update the reference in `application\components\Form::activeForm`.

Changes
-------

[](#changes)

It adds the methods:

- `application\components\ActiveForm::input()`
- `application\components\ActiveForm::button()`
- `application\components\ActiveForm::hint()`

And extends the methods:

- [`CForm::submitted()`](http://yiiframework.com/doc/api/CForm#submitted-detail "CForm::submitted()")
- [`CActiveForm::label()`](http://yiiframework.com/doc/api/CActiveForm#label-detail "CActiveForm::label()")
- [`CActiveForm::labelEx()`](http://yiiframework.com/doc/api/CActiveForm#labelEx-detail "CActiveForm::labelEx()")
- [`CActiveForm::error()`](http://yiiframework.com/doc/api/CActiveForm#error-detail "CActiveForm::error()")
- [`CActiveForm::errorSummary()`](http://yiiframework.com/doc/api/CActiveForm#errorSummary-detail "CActiveForm::errorSummary()")

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 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 ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

4529d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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