Comparison to Sitellite: Form Handling

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Forms in Sitellite are auto-generated, and lack the ability to easily control the form layout beyond basic CSS on auto-generated elements.

Forms in Elefant are simply handers and views, plus a convenience class for verification that borrows from Sitellite's validation rules with only slight changes (see below). Elefant also provides a jQuery plugin for automatic client-side validation based on the same validation rules that are used server-side.

Each Elefant app has an optional forms folder that contains INI-formatted files describing the validation rules for each field. These are heavily influenced by Sitellite's use of INI files, so they should look familiar to Sitellite developers.

For more info on forms, see Forms and input validation.

Validation rule differences

  • regex rules use preg_* and there is no preg rule
  • ignoreEmpty is now skip_if_empty
  • func and function are now callback
  • new date, time, and datetime rules
  • new range rule
  • is is now equals and matches now compares the value to another field
  • numeric has been replaced with type as in type ""numeric"" so you can verify type using any of the is_* functions
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