No longer actively maintained

I am currently using Ruby for all new projects so this is no longer being updated. Feel free to fork it if you need it - I may delete this soon.

Latter

What is it?

Latter is a form generation library for Kohana.

Buzzwords

• Uses Mustache templates
• Imports MangoDB models
• Implements some HTML5 field types and attributes (and aims to eventually support all of them).

What does it do?

Currently it allows you to do the following:

• Create forms and set their action and method attributes.
• Add fields and set the text for their label tags.
• Load values from $_POST, $_GET or your own array.
• Validate the form and have the error messages displayed next to the fields.
• Import string, int and date fields from a MangoDB model and then have that model's validation run when the form is validated, with any error messages from the model added to their corresponding form fields.
• Add rules to fields.
• Be very flexible about how the form is rendered.

What will it do, eventually?

• Import all MangoDB field types.
• Import ORM models.
• Translate labels.
• Support all HTML5 field types and attributes.
• Be clever about rules you have added. If for example the not_empty rule is added then the required attribute will be set on the field.

For more information, please check out the Wiki.