Introduction

I started using Kohana's ORM in 2.3 just after making the move from CodeIgniter. When I moved on to KO3 (Kohana v3), I tried a hand at Sprig. Unfortunately, I didn't like it. I disliked having to define column types for every field, so I went back to Kohana ORM.

One of the things that stood out from my experience with Sprig was the auto form generation. Thus ORMForm came about. My primary inspirations for this were Sprig and Formo (a form generation module which was still in the middle of being ported to KO3 at the time I started work on ORMForm).

Installation

Extract to a module folder 'ormform' under your modules directory and enable in your bootstrap.php file.

Usage

I have tried to add as many hints on usage to the class documentation which should show up if you have the userguide module enabled.

Examples

Controller

<?php
class Controller_Example extends Controller
{
    public function action_index()
    {
        $person   = ORM::factory('person');

        $template = View::factory('person/save');

        if (Request::$method === 'POST')
        {
            $person->get_form();
            if (!$person->check())
                echo join('<br />', $person->errors(NULL));
            else
                $person->save();
        }        

        $person->setup_form();        

        $view->person = $person;
    }
}

View

<?php

echo Form::open().$person->generate_form().Form::close();

Model (Partial)

<?php
/// Columns
/// id - Primary Key
/// first_name varchar
/// last_name  varchar
/// gender     tinyint(1)
/// email      varchar
/// address    text
/// company_id int foreign_key
/// active     tinyint(1)
class Model_Person extends ORM_Form
{
    const GENDER_MALE   = 0;
    const GENDER_FEMALE = 1;
    
    protected $_form_labels = array(
        'company_id' => 'Company',
    );

    protected $_rules = array(
        'first_name' => array(
            'not_empty' => NULL,
        ),
        'last_name' => array(
            'not_empty' => NULL,
        ),
        'email' => array(
            'not_empty' => NULL,
            'email' => NULL,
        ),
    );
    
    protected $_attributes = array(
        'address' => array(
            'cols' => 200,
            'rows' => 5,
        ),
    );
    
    protected $_choices = array(
        'gender' => array(
            self::GENDER_MALE   => 'Male',
            self::GENDER_FEMALE => 'Female',
        ),
    );
    
    public function init()
    {
        $this->_choices['company_id'] = ORM::factory('company')->find_all()->as_array('id', 'name');
    }
    
}

Suggestions

Shoot me an email to azuka [at] zatechcorp.com.