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netzmacht/contao-form-designer
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Contao form designer allows custom form styles

1.4.7(4mo ago)557.1k↓56.4%5[1 PRs](https://github.com/netzmacht/contao-form-designer/pulls)2LGPL-3.0-or-laterPHPPHP ^8.3CI passing

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READMEChangelogDependencies (31)Versions (35)Used By (2)

Contao Form Designer
====================

[](#contao-form-designer)

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The Contao Form Designer provides more flexibility to customize form rendering

- Splitting form templates into separate template for the layout, label, control, help and error messages
- Defining customized form layouts in the theme
- Choose a custom form layout in the form, module or content element
- Additional help message feature.
- Custom css class for form control element.

Changelog
---------

[](#changelog)

See the [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md)

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

[](#requirements)

- min. Contao 4.13 oder Contao 5
- min. PHP 8.1

Install
-------

[](#install)

### Managed edition

[](#managed-edition)

When using the managed edition it's pretty simple to install the contao form designer. Just search for the package in the Contao Manager and install it. Alternatively you can use the CLI.

```
# Using the contao manager
$ php contao-manager.phar.php composer require netzmacht/contao-form-designer

# Using composer directly
$ php composer.phar require netzmacht/contao-form-designer
```

###  Health Score

63

—

FairBetter than 99% of packages

Maintenance90

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity35

Limited adoption so far

Community20

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity90

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 89.4% 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 ~102 days

Recently: every ~192 days

Total

31

Last Release

121d ago

PHP version history (4 changes)1.0.0PHP >=7.1

1.3.0PHP ^7.4 || ^8.0

1.4.0PHP ^8.1

1.4.7PHP ^8.3

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8189209?v=4)[netzmacht](/maintainers/netzmacht)[@netzmacht](https://github.com/netzmacht)

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Top Contributors

[![dmolineus](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1186266?v=4)](https://github.com/dmolineus "dmolineus (178 commits)")[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (16 commits)")[![a-kehr](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/17803079?v=4)](https://github.com/a-kehr "a-kehr (4 commits)")[![plandolt](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/922919?v=4)](https://github.com/plandolt "plandolt (1 commits)")

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Tags

contaoform

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