Form handling

[bejitto101]

Since there are a lot of questions on forms, I figured I'd add my own. What is the best method of handling forms in your opinion? Everything by classes? Using a framework like CodeIgniter?

I ask because the forms I've been making are what I would consider rudimentary and time consuming. I'm looking for a better way of doing them. I've attached an example of what my forms look like (don't feel the need to read through it all, its kinda hellish).

I do use a couple classes, but still theres a lot of things I have to change for every new form I make.

scragar, if you read this, you mentioned you had a class for handling forms, and I was wondering how that worked?

[scragar]

My form handler is made for writing forms, with a bit of work into taking the input, it's hard to explain, but it runs a bit like this:

$form = new Form(Array('name'=>'login', 'action'=>'?', 'method'=>'post', 'submit'=>'log in'));

$username = $form->addInput(Array('type'=>'text', 'name'=>'username',
               'label'=>'Username: ', 'saveDefault'=>true,
               'validate'=>'[0-9a-zA-Z]', 'required'=>''));
$password = $form->addInput(Array('type'=>'password', 'name'=>'password',
               'label'=>'Password: ', 'saveDefault'=>false,
               'validate'=>'[0-9a-zA-Z]', 'required'=>'You must enter a password'));

$remember = $form->addInput(Array('type'=>'checkbox', 'name'=>'username',
               'label'=>'Remember Me? ', 'value'=>'Y'));

if($form->IsSubmitted()){
  if($form->IsValid())
    echo "<p>You entered: {$username->display} and {$password->display}.</p>";
  else
    echo "Your input failed, the errors are: {$form->errors}";
}else{
  echo $form;
} 

But I will warn you that the class works only on PHP5.1+, and the code in it is far from pretty(it also uses 4 classes: Form, InputBox, SelectBox and Button).

It's also not exactly efficient, I can think of lot's of ways to make it more efficient if I wanted, but for now I'm happy to let it slide.