Form Engine recommendations

Question

I'm trying to find a form engine that can generate the markup from simpler instructions like addTextField. This is common in CMSs and frameworks, but I'm looking for something that I can use in a plain php non-CMS project. Does anyone know of a form engine like this? If you do and use it, please mention some of its features. If it has validation and such.

Answer 1

Zend_Framework was the first that popped into my mind. The component you want is called Zend_Form. Although ZF is a full framework, and it is designed to be used in MVC (model view controller) applications, you can still Zend_Auth separately. However I will warn you there is a bit of a learning curve: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.form.html.

It supports lots of form elements, grouped forms, filtered inputs, validation (built-in validations and custom ones), input escaping, and element ordering.

Here's the Quick Start: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.form.quickstart.html to show you what you would be getting into if choose Zend_Form.

Answer 2

Just for future reference, I also found this

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jformphp/

though I haven't tested it yet, and maybe I will go with Zend as suggested by SimpleCoder