scbForms

scbForms is a class that simplifies form generation.

Why you should use it:

• automatically handles escaping; no need to worry about XSS attacks anymore
• given formdata, it finds the appropriate value and sets checked/selected attributes
• wraps checkboxes and radio buttons in <label> tags so they're easier to click

input($args, $formdata = array())

This is the main method, with which you can generate one or more form elements of the same type, including <select>s and <textarea>s.

$args is an associative array of arguments that define what form element should be generated.

General args:

• type - string (mandatory)
• name - string | array (mandatory)
• value - string | array
• desc - string | array | bool
• desc_pos - 'before' | 'after' | 'foo %input% bar' (default: after)
• extra - string | array Extra HTML attributes like class, style etc.

'checkbox' specific arguments:

• choices - array(value => label) | The possible values
• checked - bool | string Force the checkbox button to be checked or not

'radio' and 'select' specific arguments:

• text - bool | string By default, an empty option is generated. This can be disabled by setting the text argument to false
• choices - array(value => label) | The possible values
• numeric - bool (default: false) If set to false, the method will attempt to convert a numeric choices array to an associative one
• selected - string Force a certain option to be selected

$formdata is also an associative array with the data with which to pre-fill the elements.

Examples

Simple text input:

scbForms::input(array(
	'type' => 'text',
	'name' => 'title',
	'value' => 'Insert title here',
));

The input will be prefilled with the text 'Insert title here'.

Multiple radio buttons:

$data = array( 'size' => 'medium' );

scbForms::input(array(
	'type' => 'radio',
	'name' => 'size',
	'choices' => array('small', 'medium', 'large')
), $data);

This will generate three radio buttons, with the middle one selected.

A dropdown element:

$data = array( 'language' => 'en' );

scbForms::input(array(
	'type' => 'select',
	'name' => 'language',
	'choices' => array( 'en' => 'English', 'fr' => 'French', 'de' => 'German' )
), $data);

This will generate a <select> element with 3 options. The selected one will be 'en'.

More examples can be found here:

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/scb-framework/trunk/example.php