Python library to layout, render and validate HTML forms in web applications
Project description
Formbar is a python library to layout, render and validate HTML forms in web applications. Formbar renders forms which are compatible with Twitter Bootstrap styles.
In contrast to many other form libraries forms with formbar are configured in XML files to separate the form definition form the implementation and handle it as configuration.
Formbar is the German word for “shapeable” and should emphasise the character of formbar which hopefully makes shaping your forms more easy.
Formbar uses a subset of the FormAlchemy as underlying library for rendering and basic validation.
Features
Support for SQLAlchemy mapped items and plain forms.
Expression bases rules
Type conversation and validation
XML based form definition
Row and column based layouts
Twitter bootstrap support
Custom CSS styling
Error messages
Help texts
Numbering of fields
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Getting started
Please refer to formbar documentation for further information how to get started using formbar. For all the impatient out there here comes a very comprehensive example code which should give a glimpse on how things could work for you:
from formbar.config import Config, load
from formbar.form import Form
# Simple rendering here, no data submission
# nor validation or saving.
config = Config(load('/path/to/formconfig.xml'))
form_config = config.get_form('example')
form = Form(form_config)
form.render()
Documentation
Formbar should be well documented and comes with documentation, bunch of unitests and last but not least an example serve which serve some example forms.
Licence
Formbar is Free Software and licensed under GPL version 2.
Project state
Formbar is in a early project state and still in under development including large design changes. Call it alpha if you want.
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