CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

3.0.0 (alpha)

• Refactor of Former – the project is now framework agnostic, see installation details
• [add] You can now chain methods to actions blocks Former::actions('Hello', 'Mr Bond')->id('foo')->addClass('bar')
• [add] You can now chain buttons to actions blocks Former::actions()->large_primary_submit('Submit')
• [add] You can now chain live validation rules to fields (example: Former::text('foo')->alpha_dash())
• [add] You can now display a single field without control group in any kind of form (Former::text('foo')->raw())
• [mod] Frameworks names renamed from bootstrap to TwitterBootstrap, zurb to ZurbFoundation and null to Nude
• [add] You can now manually open groups via Former::group('label')
• [add] You can also create a group that contains raw content (not a field) with Former::group('label')->contents('YourContent'). This will wrap the content in a control class so that your content is aligned with the fields.
• [add] Checkables now handle being populated from relations
• [add] You can now add classes to the group via the ->addGroupClass method
• [add] Former::withRules() now also take a Laravel-formatted string of rules (ie. "rule|rule:parameter|rule")
• [add] You can now populate on a form-basis with the chained method ->populate on a form opener
• [add] Add support for macros with Former::macro($name, $macro())
• [add] Add Select->range() method

2.6.0

• [add] 'required_text' to append a text to required fields's labels
• [add] Former::open()->rules([]) as alias to Former::withRules
• [fix] Fix a bug where labels for radios would fail because of identical ids
• [fix] Fixed a bug where ->populateField would fail if the form was populated with an object

2.5.0

• [add] Add basic button class that allow Bootstrappy submit/buttons
• [add] ControlGroup->prependIcon and appendIcon methods
• [add] Ability to pass an array of classes to add to Field->addClass
• [fix] Fix instantiated classes bug in PHP 5.3.2
• [fix] Fix multiple buttons instances overwriting themselves

2.4.0

• [add] Form openers are now objects too and accept chained methods
• [add] Add unchecked_value option to decide what value unchecked checkboxes have in the POST array
• [add] Allow booleans to be passed to Checkable->check() on single items
• [mod] Disable push_checkbox option by default
• [fix] Automatically fetch Lang objects passed to ->options

2.3.0

• [add] Add push_checkboxes option which forces the submiting of unchecked fields to the POST array

2.2.0

• [add] Add Former::file() and Former::files() with methods ->max and ->accept
• [add] Add ability to set a placeholder option for select fields
• [add] Add ability to set attributes for a label

2.1.0

• [add] Add ability to populate field with a model's relationships
• [add] Added ->check() method on radios and checkboxes

2.0.0

• [add] Former now uses Laravel's Config class to manage settings, letting the user create a former.php file in application/config to override default options
• [add] Add option to disable automatic labeling of fields
• [fix] Fix translation of empty strings

1.2.1

• [add] Fetch automatically key and value from models through get_key and __toString
• [add] Add Former::populateField to populate a specific field
• [fix] Fixed a bug preventing from using one Former call to output several times

1.2.0

• [add] Add suport for Zurb's Foundation framework
• [add] Allow the passing of Query/Eloquent objects to text fields through ->useDatalist
• [add] Add option to desactivate live validation
• [mod] Allow public use of Former::getErrors()
• [mod] Let user specify a custom id for generated datalists
• [fix] Don't create a label tag around checkboxes if the label is empty
• [fix] Fix custom arguments of open() not working as desired

1.1.0

• [add] Allow the passing of Query/Eloquent objets to select fields through ->fromQuery
• [fix] Disable form population on password fields
• [fix] Fix uneditable inputs outputing as text fields

1.0.0

• Initial release of Former on Laravel Bundles