Laravel Form Builder

This package provides the standard form builder functionality used in most projects.

Installation

PHP

You can install the package via composer:

composer require dcodegroup/form-builder

Then run the install command.

php artisan form-builder:install

This will publish the configuration file and the migration file.

Run the migrations

php artisan migrate

JS

Include this built file to your layouts:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/vendor/form-builder/index.js" defer></script>

SCSS

There is a new generated file under public/vendor/form-builder/index.css. You must use this file in your main scss file

Run the npm build (dev/prod)

npm run dev

Configuration

Most of configuration has been set the fair defaults. However you can review the configuration file at config/form-builder.php and adjust as needed

return [
    'middleware' => ['web', 'auth'],
    'layout_path' => 'layouts.app', // Make sure you have correct base layout name,
    'content_section' => 'content', // Name of your content section
    'route_path' => 'forms', // eg 'admin/settings/waivers',
    'route_name' => 'forms', // eg 'admin.setting.waivers',
    'binding' => 'form' // eg 'waiver',
]

Usage

The package provides an endpoints which you can use. See the full list by running

php artisan route:list --name=form

They are

[example.com/forms] Which is where you will form index. This is by default protected auth middleware but you can modify in the configuration. This is where you want to link to in your admin and possibly a new window

Override views

Create new folder name form-builder-views under resources/views section then put following files to override:

edit.blade.php
index.blade.php
show.blade.php

Traits for form validation

Located in

src\Http\Traits\FormValidator.php