Pre-made form elements
I don't know what to call what I'm looking for - I'm building some forms and I don't want to have to re-create standard fields all the time. So I'm looking for someplace I can go to grab standard form controls (like birthdate fields, country lists, that sort of thing).
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Busy posted this at 22:19 — 30th November 2006.
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How a bout a function or a class (php), then when you want a form field you just do something like:
$form_field(type, name, length, id ...);
teammatt3 posted this at 01:07 — 1st December 2006.
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What? Copy + paste doesn't work for you
? I think Busy has a good idea, in fact, I think I'll try and code one tomorrow. It's a good excuse to play around with PHP.
Megan posted this at 14:14 — 1st December 2006.
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I don't think I made myself clear - I need a birthdate field, right? I don't want to type out all the months and days to choose from. I want to find that someplace to copy and paste. Other people are writing the backend on this so I just need the front end part for right now.
It would be the same if, say, you needed a list of countries to pick from, or US states or whatever.
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timjpriebe posted this at 14:54 — 1st December 2006.
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Sounds like a good possible section in the new site... I'd love to help create a bunch of pre-made form elements.
Oh, and a quick search on Google didn't reveal much. But I'm sure you've already tried that, Megan. I know I've found a month listing before, but couldn't find it this time.
Tim
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Megan posted this at 15:21 — 1st December 2006.
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I tried searching but maybe I wasn't using the right terms or something, I don't know.
(I'm not actually doing a country list, was just using that as an example)
That would be good content for the new site! I'll put that into basecamp.
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 15:11 — 1st December 2006.
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The dojo toolkit includes a few widgets like a date picker. They're Javascript-heavy, rich form elements though, and I don't know if they degrade gracefully to normal form elements. There are assorted other scripts on the web like it, but they're probably overcomplicating things in this case.
Check out these posts and comments on 456 Berea Street and Bruce Lawson regarding country lists in forms.
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