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thehiredgun/formkit
===================

A combined back- and front-end package to manage data-submissions and forms in Laravel

v0.8.0(8y ago)032MITPHPPHP >=7.0.0

Since Jun 15Pushed 8y agoCompare

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formkit
=======

[](#formkit)

A nice bit of kit to help manage form-submissions in Laravel

Introduction
------------

[](#introduction)

FormKit is a two-part package:

- FormKit\\SubmissionKit dramatically streamlines the work you have to do on the back-end to manage data-submissions and forms
- FormKit\\TemplateKit dramatically reduces the amount of front-end templating you have to do to build nice-looking forms using Blade & Bootstrap
- Together, a developer can get rapidly build out comprehensive solutions to manage all different kinds of data, then tweak on an as-needed basis

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

[](#installation)

Recommended installation is via [Composer](https://getcomposer.org):

`composer require thehiredgun/formkit`

or, add this to your composer.json:

```
"require": {
    ...,
    "thehiredgun/formkit": "^1.0",
    ...
}

```

SubmissionKit Quick-Start
-------------------------

[](#submissionkit-quick-start)

### For traditional Web Application use:

[](#for-traditional-web-application-use)

We're going to use a single(!) controller method to manage getting a form and handling a form-submission: In routes/web.php:

```
Route::match(['get', 'post'], '/books/{book}/edit', 'BookController@form');
Route::match(['get', 'post'], '/books/add', 'BookController@form');
```

Then, in app/Http/Controllers/BookController.php:

```
...
use App\Models\Eloquent\Book;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use TheHiredGun\FormKit\SubmissionKit\SubmissionKit;
...
    public function form(Request $request, Book $book = null)
    {
        // define your rules for the form.
        // multi-dimensional array is the preferred style, but you can use an array of strings, as well
        $rules = [
            'title' => [
                'required',
                'string',
            ],
            'author' => [
                'required',
                'string',
            ],
            'published_on' => [
                'required',
                'date_format:Y-m-d',
            ],
        ];
        $form = new SubmissionKit($request, $rules);
        // if the form has been submitted
        if ($request->isMethod('post')) {
            $form->validate();              // validate the form
            $form->setProperties($book);    // set the properties on the $book where the values are valid
            if ($form->isValid()) {
                $book->save();

                return redirect()->route('books');
            }
        }

        return view('books.form', [
            'book'   => $book,
            'errors' => $submissionKit->getErrors(),
        ]);
    }
```

### SubmissionKit For RESTful API usage:

[](#submissionkit-for-restful-api-usage)

Here we'll use the SubmissionKit in two separate methods: one for POST, and one for PUT In routes/api.php:

```
Route::post('/books', 'BookController@post');
Route::put('/books/{book}', 'BookController@put');
```

And the BookController:

```
...
    public function post(Request $request)
    {
        $rules = [
            'title' => [
                'required',
                'string',
            ],
            'author' => [
                'required',
                'string',
            ],
            'published_on' => [
                'required',
                'date_format:Y-m-d',
            ],
        ];
        $form = new SubmissionKit($request, $rules);
        $form->validate();              // validate the form
        $form->setProperties(new Book());    // set the properties on the $book where the values are valid
        if ($form->isValid()) {
            $book->save();

            return response($book, 201);
        }

        return response([
            'errors' => $submissionKit->getErrors(),
        ], 400);
    }

    public function put(Request $request, Book $book)
    {
        $rules = [
            'title' => [
                'required',
                'string',
            ],
            'author' => [
                'required',
                'string',
            ],
            'published_on' => [
                'required',
                'date_format:Y-m-d',
            ],
        ];
        $form = new SubmissionKit($request, $rules);
        $form->validate();              // validate the form
        $form->setProperties($book);    // set the properties on the $book where the values are valid
        if ($form->isValid()) {
            $book->save();

            return response(200);
        }

        return response([
            'errors' => $submissionKit->getErrors(),
        ], 400);
    }
```

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community2

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

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 ~11 days

Recently: every ~28 days

Total

15

Last Release

3091d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Tags

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