laravel form | Laravel - Forms
What is Laravel Form?
- In a database context, a form is a window or screen that contains numerous fields, or spaces to enter data.
- Each field holds a field label so that any user who views the form gets an idea of its contents.
- A form is more user friendly than generating queries to create tables and insert data into fields.
- Laravel provides various in-built tags to handle HTML forms easily and securely. All the major elements of HTML are generated using Laravel.
- To support this, we need to add HTML package to Laravel using composer.
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Example 1
Step 1
- Execute the following command to proceed with the same.
composer require illuminate/html
Step 2
- This will add HTML package to Laravel as shown in the following image.
Step 3
- Now, we need to add this package to Laravel configuration file which is stored at config/app.php. Open this file and you will see a list of Laravel service providers as shown in the following image. Add HTML service provider as indicated in the outlined box in the following image.
Step 4
- Add aliases in the same file for HTML and Form. Notice the two lines indicated in the outlined box in the following image and add those two lines.
Step 5
- Now everything is setup. Let’s see how we can use various HTML elements using Laravel tags.
Opening a Form
{{ Form::open(array('url' => 'foo/bar')) }}
//
{{ Form::close() }}
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Generating a Label Element
echo Form::label('email', 'E-Mail Address');
Generating a Text Input
echo Form::text('username');
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Specifying a Default Value
echo Form::text('email', 'example@gmail.com');
Generating a Password Input
echo Form::password('password');
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Generating a File Input
echo Form::file('image');
Generating a Checkbox Or Radio Input
echo Form::checkbox('name', 'value');
echo Form::radio('name', 'value');
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Generating a Checkbox Or Radio Input That Is Checked
echo Form::checkbox('name', 'value', true);
echo Form::radio('name', 'value', true);
Generating a Drop-Down List
echo Form::select('size', array('L' => 'Large', 'S' => 'Small'));
Generating A Submit Button
echo Form::submit('Click Me!');
Example 2
Step 1
- Copy the following code to create a view called resources/views/form.php.
resources/views/form.php
<html>
<body>
<?php
echo Form::open(array('url' => 'foo/bar'));
echo Form::text('username','Username');
echo '<br/>';
echo Form::text('email', 'example@gmail.com');
echo '<br/>';
echo Form::password('password');
echo '<br/>';
echo Form::checkbox('name', 'value');
echo '<br/>';
echo Form::radio('name', 'value');
echo '<br/>';
echo Form::file('image');
echo '<br/>';
echo Form::select('size', array('L' => 'Large', 'S' => 'Small'));
echo '<br/>';
echo Form::submit('Click Me!');
echo Form::close();
?>
</body>
</html>
Step 2
- Add the following line in app/Http/routes.php to add a route for view form.php
app/Http/routes.php
Route::get('/form',function(){
return view('form');
});
Step 3
- Visit the following URL to see the form.
- http://localhost:8000/form
Step 4
- The output will appear as shown in the following image.
