Latest PHP Forms Class with HTML Generator and JavaScript Validation package blog posts

Modern PHP CSRF Protection Example using a PHP Forms Library

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 12:14:14 GMT

Modern PHP CSRF Protection Example using a PHP Forms Library

By Manuel Lemos

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks are means that badly intentioned users may use to make users of a site perform actions without intention. For instance, a successful CSRF attack can make e-commerce purchases, and the purchased goods are delivered to an attacker's location address.

Good Web sites are protected against CSRF security attacks. Attempts to perform these attacks are ignored.

As a responsible Web developer, it is in your best interest to learn how to prevent these attacks so your PHP Web projects can be more secure.

Please read this short article to learn more about CSRF attacks and a practical example of protection against CSRF attacks in your Web form pages generated and processed by PHP.

Validating PHP Form Inputs Depending Other Inputs

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:22:37 GMT

Validating PHP Form Inputs Depending Other Inputs

By Manuel Lemos

Sometimes you have PHP generated pages with forms that have fields which you may want to validate or not depending on the state of other fields.

This article tells how you can easily implement conditional validation logic by explaining how to make one field be validated only if a radio or checkbox is site or some other special custom logic that you need to implement.

How to Show Google Maps with Multiple Locations and Many Markers using Latitude and Longitude in PHP

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:16:16 GMT

How to Show Google Maps with Multiple Locations and Many Markers using Latitude and Longitude in PHP

By Manuel Lemos

Sometimes you need to display Google Maps with a large number of markers. However, adding too many markers makes the map page load too slow.

This article explains how you can use marker cluster feature of the forms map location plug-in to cluster large numbers of markers to make the page load much faster.

Rich HTML form select input plug-in

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:51:56 GMT

Rich HTML form select input plug-in

By Manuel Lemos

The HTML forms select inputs are very useful but their limitations do not allow presenting a more detailed and pleasant to read information about the options that the user can select.

The form list select custom input plug-in was released with the goal of overcoming the limitations of regular select inputs.

This article provides an introduction to the features of this new plug-in.

Upcoming Visual HTML templates editor plug-in

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:51:04 GMT

Upcoming Visual HTML templates editor plug-in

By Manuel Lemos

A new plug-in for the PHP HTML forms validation and generation is being developed to provide a Visual editor for HTML templates.

This article gives an overview of this plug-in features and invites every user to test it and comment on its current features, report bugs and suggest new features to make it more useful to everybody.

Locating addresses on Google Maps embedded in PHP generated Web forms

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:47:07 GMT

Locating addresses on Google Maps embedded in PHP generated Web forms

By Manuel Lemos

The forms generation and validation class map location plug-in has been enhanced to help users locating an address or a city on Google Maps embedded in PHP generated Web forms.

This article explains how the maps location plug-in uses the Google Maps Geo-Coding API to find locations entered by the users in Web forms.

Making money with advertising in embedded Google Maps

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:27:07 GMT

Making money with advertising in embedded Google Maps

By Manuel Lemos

Since a few months ago, you can place advertising in Google Maps and make money from maps embedded in your site pages.

This article explains how to achieve it easily in PHP using the map location plug-in of the Forms Generation and validation package.

Advanced PHP forms scaffolding AJAX enabled plug-in released

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:26:06 GMT

Advanced PHP forms scaffolding AJAX enabled plug-in released

By Manuel Lemos

A new plug-in for the PHP forms generation and validation class to implement scaffolding forms with AJAX support and other advanced features was released.

This article presents the current and future features of the plug-in.

New scaffolding AJAX plug-in beta

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:09:08 GMT

New scaffolding AJAX plug-in beta

By Manuel Lemos

A new version of the forms generation and validation class package will be released soon.

The main new feature is a powerful scaffolding plug-in that makes possible to quickly build forms to manage data records performing basic CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update and Delete), as well other useful operations like Previews.

Currently, this scaffolding plug-in is in beta testing phase, but it already includes advanced features such as transparent AJAX support.

Feedback is needed from users interested in testing the plug-in before it is released to the general public.