Show HN: My open source form builder

#1

Post by hb » Mon, Jan 09, 2012, 3:40 PM UTC

Link to project: https://github.com/haldun/myformbuilder

Link to working app: http://haldun.me/myformbuilder/editor.html

A simple JavaScript based form builder. Currently it has no backend, just generates form structure in JSON.

Any feedback is welcomed.

Thanks.

Re: Show HN: My open source form builder

#2

Post by nodata » Mon, Jan 09, 2012, 3:52 PM UTC

Cool. Does it do validation? I tried creating a number field and entering text but I got no warning.

Re: Show HN: My open source form builder

#3

Post by hb » Mon, Jan 09, 2012, 3:54 PM UTC

Clickable links:

https://github.com/haldun/myformbuilder

http://haldun.me/myformbuilder/editor.html

Re: Show HN: My open source form builder

#4

Post by hb » Mon, Jan 09, 2012, 3:56 PM UTC

nodata wrote: post #2

Cool. Does it do validation? I tried creating a number field and entering text but I got no warning.

Currently it does not. Indeed this tool is intended for building forms. Displaying a form and getting data from users should be handled in custom code. Nevertheless I also plan to develop a form runner app to show the designed forms to users.

Re: Show HN: My open source form builder

#5

Post by combiclickwise » Mon, Jan 09, 2012, 7:51 PM UTC

Nicely done. Thanks a lot.

Re: Show HN: My open source form builder

#6

Post by tgriesser » Tue, Jan 10, 2012, 12:14 AM UTC

Very nice... how long have you been working on it?

I'm actually in the process of building an open source backend for a robust form builder as a package for the fuelPHP framework. Not sure if you have any interest in collaborating, but I was planning on building a similar js frontend for it, including mirrored client/server side validation and custom callbacks but with backbone.js ...

Shoot me an email if you're interested at all.

Re: Show HN: My open source form builder

#7

Post by macca321 » Mon, Jan 16, 2012, 5:48 PM UTC

what licence is this under?