Laravel 4 FormBuilder Extended

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.

Installation

Install this package through Composer by editing your project's composer.json file to require estey/formbuilder.

{
    "require": {
        "estey/formbuilder": "4.2.*"
    }
}

Then, update Composer:

composer update

Open app/config/app.php, and replace 'Illuminate\Html\HtmlServiceProvider' with:

'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.

selectWeekday('weekday');

Will return:

<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:

<select>
    <option value="1">domingo</option>
    <option value="2">lunes</option>
    <option value="3">martes</option>
    <option value="4">miércoles</option>
    <option value="5">jueves</option>
    <option value="6">viernes</option>
    <option value="7">sábado</option>
</select>     

Prepend Options

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

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

Will return:

<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>   

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.