Do you want to write forms 60% faster?

Or type 60% less?

Are you using Codegniter and Bootstrap 3?

Then this is the plugin for you!

$this->load->helper('form');$this->load->library('form_builder');

<?= $this->form_builder->open_form(array('action' => '')); ?>

<?/* Prepare variables */$defaults_object_or_array_from_db = NULL;$item = new stdClass;$item->id = 33;$item->description = '';$years = range(intval(date('Y')), intval(date('Y')) + 20);$months = array_map(function ($n) {return str_pad($n, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);}, range(1, 12));$exp_month_options = array_combine($months, $months);$cc_exp_month = '05';$exp_year_options = array_combine($years, $years);$cc_exp_year = intval(date('Y')) + 5;$input_span = 'pull-left ';/* Build form */echo $this->form_builder->build_form_horizontal(array(array(/* HIDDEN */'id' => 'id','type' => 'hidden','value' => $item->id),array(/* INPUT */'id' => 'color','placeholder' => 'Item Color','input_addons' => array('pre' => 'color: #','post' => ';'),'help' => 'this is a help block'),array(/* DROP DOWN */'id' => 'published','type' => 'dropdown','options' => array('1' => 'Published','2' => 'Disabled')),array(/* TEXTAREA */'id' => 'description','type' => 'textarea','class' => 'wysihtml5','placeholder' => 'Item Description (HTML or rich text)','value' => html_entity_decode($item->description)),array(/* COMBINE */'id' => 'expiration_date','type' => 'combine', /* use `combine` to put several input inside the same block */'elements' => array(array('id' => 'cc_exp_month','label' => 'Expiration Date','autocomplete' => 'cc-exp-month','type' => 'dropdown','options' => $exp_month_options,'class' => $input_span . 'required input-small','required' => '','data-items' => '4','pattern' => '\d{1,2}','style' => 'width: auto;','value' => (isset($cc_exp_month) ? $cc_exp_month : '')),array('id' => 'cc_exp_year','label' => 'Expiration Date','autocomplete' => 'cc-exp-year','type' => 'dropdown','options' => $exp_year_options,'class' => $input_span . 'required input-small','required' => '','data-items' => '4','pattern' => '\d{4}','style' => 'width: auto; margin-left: 5px;','value' => (isset($cc_exp_year) ? $cc_exp_year : '')))),array(/* DATE */'id' => 'date','type' => 'date'),array(/* CHECKBOX */'id' => 'checkbox_group','label' => 'Checkboxes','type' => 'checkbox','options' => array(array('id' => 'checkbox1','value' => 1// If no label is set, the value will be used),array('id' => 'checkbox2','value' => 2,'label' => 'Two'))),array(/* RADIO */'id' => 'radio_group','label' => 'Radio buttons','type' => 'radio','options' => array(array('id' => 'radio_button_yes','value' => 1,'label' => 'Yes'),array('id' => 'radio_button_no','value' => 0,'label' => 'No'))),array(/* SUBMIT */'id' => 'submit','type' => 'submit')), $defaults_object_or_array_from_db);echo $this->form_builder->close_form();?>

<?= $this->form_builder->close_form(); ?>

Produces:

<form action="" autocomplete="on" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8"><input type="hidden" name="id" value="33" /><div><label for="color">Color</label><div><div><span>color: #</span><input type="text" name="color" value="" placeholder="Item Color"  /><span>;</span></div><span>this is a help block</span></div></div><div><label for="published">Published</label><div><select name="published"><option value="1">Published</option><option value="2">Disabled</option></select></div></div><div><label for="description">Description</label><div><textarea name="description" cols="40" rows="10" placeholder="Item Description (HTML or rich text)" ></textarea></div></div><div><label for="expiration_date">Expiration Date</label><div><select name="cc_exp_month" label="Expiration Date" autocomplete="cc-exp-month" required="" data-items="4" pattern="\d{1,2}"><option value="01">01</option><option value="02">02</option><option value="03">03</option><option value="04">04</option><option value="05" selected="selected">05</option><option value="06">06</option><option value="07">07</option><option value="08">08</option><option value="09">09</option><option value="10">10</option><option value="11">11</option><option value="12">12</option></select><select name="cc_exp_year" label="Expiration Date" autocomplete="cc-exp-year" required="" data-items="4" pattern="\d{4}"><option value="2016">2016</option><option value="2017">2017</option><option value="2018">2018</option><option value="2019">2019</option><option value="2020">2020</option><option value="2021" selected="selected">2021</option><option value="2022">2022</option><option value="2023">2023</option><option value="2024">2024</option><option value="2025">2025</option><option value="2026">2026</option><option value="2027">2027</option><option value="2028">2028</option><option value="2029">2029</option><option value="2030">2030</option><option value="2031">2031</option><option value="2032">2032</option><option value="2033">2033</option><option value="2034">2034</option><option value="2035">2035</option><option value="2036">2036</option></select></div></div><div><label for="date">Date</label><div><input type="date" name="date" value=""  /></div></div><div><label for="checkbox_group">Checkboxes</label><div><label><input type="checkbox" name="checkbox_group" value="1" label="1"  />1</label><label><input type="checkbox" name="checkbox_group" value="2" label="Two"  />Two</label></div></div><div><label for="radio_group">Radio buttons</label><div><label><input type="radio" name="radio_group" value="1" label="Yes"  />Yes</label><label><input type="radio" name="radio_group" value="0" label="No"  />No</label></div></div><div><label for="submit"></label><div><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"  name="submit" value="" /></div></div></form>