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Chapter 15: Making Your Job Easier with PEAR
< head >
< title > Simple HTML_QuickForm Example < /title >
< /head >
< body >
< h1 > Simple HTML_QuickForm Example < /h1 >
< ?php
require_once( “HTML/QuickForm.php” );
$form = new HTML_QuickForm( “”, “post”, “”, “”, null, true );
$form- > addElement( “text”, “username”, “Username” );
$password = $form- > addElement( “password”, “password”, “Password” );
$password- > setValue( “” );
$buttons = array();
$buttons[] = HTML_QuickForm::createElement( “submit”, “submitButton”, “Send
Details” );
$buttons[] = HTML_QuickForm::createElement( “reset”, “resetButton”, “Reset
Form” );
$form- > addGroup( $buttons, null, null, “ & nbsp;” );

if ( $form- > isSubmitted() ) {
echo “ < p > Thanks for your details! < /p > ”;
} else {
echo $form- > toHtml();
}
? >
< /body >
< /html >

After displaying the page header, the script includes the HTML/QuickForm.php class file, then creates a
new HTML_QuickForm object with a blank name attribute, a method= “ post ” attribute, empty action
and target attributes, no additional attributes, and the $trackSubmit property set to true so that the
script can detect when the form has been submitted:

require_once( “HTML/QuickForm.php” );

$form = new HTML_QuickForm( “”, “post”, “”, “”, null, true );
:
Next, the script adds a username text input field to the form, with a label of “ Username “
$form- > addElement( “text”, “username”, “Username” );

A password input field called password is also added, with a label of “ Password . By storing the
”
returned element object in a variable, $password , the script can then set the field ’ s value to an empty
string:
$password = $form- > addElement( “password”, “password”, “Password” );
$password- > setValue( “” );
It ’ s a good idea to do this to prevent the password being sent back to the browser — and therefore being
viewable in the page source — if the form is redisplayed.

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