estey/formbuilder

Laravel 4 extended FormBuilder Class.

Laravel 4 FormBuilder Extended

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This class extends Laravel 4's FormBuilder class adding a selectWeekday method, translations to selectWeekday and selectMonth, and adds the ability to prepend an array of options to select fields., _(*2)

Installation

Install this package through Composer by editing your project's composer.json file to require estey/formbuilder., _(*3)

``` json { "require": { "estey/formbuilder": "4.2.*" } }, <sub>(*4)</sub>

Then, update Composer:

``` bash
composer update

Open app/config/app.php, and replace 'Illuminate\Html\HtmlServiceProvider' with:, <sub>(*5)</sub>

'Estey\FormBuilder\HtmlServiceProvider'

Usage

• selectWeekday
• Translations
• Prepend Options

selectWeekday

The selectWeekday method allows you to quickly generate a select field with a list of weekdays., <sub>(*6)</sub>

``` php selectWeekday('weekday');, <sub>(*7)</sub>

Will return:

``` html
<select name="weekday">
    <option value="1">Sunday</option>
    <option value="2">Monday</option>
    <option value="3">Tuesday</option>
    <option value="4">Wednesday</option>
    <option value="5">Thursday</option>
    <option value="6">Friday</option>
    <option value="7">Saturday</option>
</select>

Translations

The selectWeekday and selectMonth methods in this extension will respect the locale settings. For example, to use Spanish, create an app/lang/es directory and copy over the example datetime file from this package /src/lang/es/datetime.php to app/lang/es/datetime.php. After setting the locale to 'es' in app/config/app.php, selectWeekday() should return:, <sub>(*8)</sub>

``` html domingo lunes martes miércoles jueves viernes sábado , <sub>(*9)</sub>

Prepend Options
---------------

To prepend options to a `selectWeekday` and `selectMonth` method, add a `_prepend` array to the options array.

``` php
selectMonth('month', '', [
    'id' => 'foo', 
    '_prepend' => ['' => '-- Choose a Month --']
]);

Will return:, <sub>(*10)</sub>

html <select name="month" id="foo"> <option value="" selected="selected">-- Choose a Month --</option> <option value="1">January</option> <option value="2">February</option> <option value="3">March</option> <option value="4">April</option> <option value="5">May</option> <option value="6">June</option> <option value="7">July</option> <option value="8">August</option> <option value="9">September</option> <option value="10">October</option> <option value="11">November</option> <option value="12">December</option> </select>, <sub>(*11)</sub>

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information., <sub>(*12)</sub>