A Yii2 plugin used for creating stepped form or form wizard using yii\widgets\ActiveForm
and \yii\db\ActiveRecord
, it uses smart wizard library for creating the form interface that uses 3 builtin and 3 extra themes, moreover you can also create your own customized theme too.
Note : It uses limited features of the jquery plugin SmartWizard that suite the needs of the ActiveForm validation so not all options in the javascript plugin library are allowed to be changed or customized from within this plugin.
The extension detects if you are using the yiisoft/yii2-bootstrap
or yiisoft/yii2-bootstrap4
and loads the appropriate assets for the extension. It will check first the "yiisoft/yii2-bootstrap4"
if it exists then it will load bootstrap4 resources otherwise it will fall back to use bootstrap3. So make sure you are following the correct guide to use the yiisoft/yii2-bootstrap4"
and remove the "yiisoft/yii2-bootstrap": "~2.0.0",
from you composer.json
and change the minimum-stability:"dev"
here is the complete guide.
use composer to install the extension
php composer.phar require buttflattery/yii2-formwizard "@dev"
or add into the composer.json
file under require
section
"buttflattery/yii2-formwizard":"@dev"
Themes
wizardContainerId (string)
Id of the main container for the wizard.
forceBsVersion (int)
(since V1.5.0)Force use of the bootstrap version in case you have some extension having dependencies on yiisoft\yii2-bootstrap4
even though you are using yiisoft\yii2-bootstrap
on the site overall, since the extension checks for yii2-bootstrap4 first and if it finds it will load the yii2-bootstrap4 assets and having both of the extensions installed the widget will always go for the bootstrap4. although we dont recommend doing that but still there are scenarios wher people are using in this manner and fce layout problems. default value for this option is false
which means widget will detect automatically, you can use the provided constants FormWizard::BS_3
or FormWizard::BS_4
.
editMode (boolean)
(since V1.6.4)if form wizard should be loaded in edit mode. Default value is false
. see wiki for details.
formOptions (array)
Specify the ActiveForm properties.
labelNext (string)
Next button label, default value Next
.
labelPrev (string)
Previous button label, default value Previous
.
labelFinish (string)
Finish button label, default value Finish
.
labelAddRow (string)
Add button label for tabular step, default value Add
.
classNext (string)
Css classes for the button Next, default btn btn-info
.
iconNext (string)
The html string for the Next button, defaults to <i class="formwizard-arrow-right-alt1-ico"></i>
.
classPrev (string)
Css classes for the button Previous, default btn btn-info
.
iconPrev (string)
The html string for the prev icon, defaults to <i class="formwizard-arrow-left-alt1-ico"></i>
.
classFinish (string)
Css classes for the button Finish, default btn btn-success
.
iconFinish (string)
The Html string for the icon, defaults to <i class="formwizard-check-alt-ico"></i>
.
classAdd (string)
Css class for Add Row Button default to btn btn-info
iconAdd (string)
The html string for the button default to <i class="formwizard-plus-ico"></i>
enablePreview (boolean)
(since V1.2.0)Adds a Preview Step as the last step in the form wizard where you can preview all the entered inputs grouped by steps, clicking on any step will navigate to that step for quick edit, it defaults to false
. See Wiki For Code Samples
When using 'enablePreview'=>true
you can customize the classes using the below options.
previewTitle (string)
: Preview step Title, default is Final Preview
.previewDescription (string)
: Description for the preview step, default is Final Preview of all Steps
.previewFormInfoText (string)
: Preview step form description, default is Review information below and click to change
.previewEmptyText (string)
: Text used for showing the value for the empty inputs, default is NA
.classListGroup (string)
: Css class for the list group defaults to 'list-group'
.classListGroupHeading (string)
: Css class for the list group heading element, defaults to 'list-group-heading'
.classListGroupItem (string)
: Css class for the list group item, defaults to 'list-group-item-success'
.classListGroupBadge (string)
: Css class for the list group badge that displays the input label, defaults to 'success'
.enablePersistence (boolean)
(since V1.3.0)Enables to save and restore an un-saved form to the local storage for later use, defaults to false
.
steps (array)
An array of the steps(array
), the steps can have models dedicated to each step, or a single model for all steps. Following options are recognized when specifying a step.
type (string)
: The type of the step, defaults to default
. This option is used if you need to have tabular inputs for the step by specifying the type as tabular
, you can use the provided constants like FormWizard::STEP_TYPE_TABULAR
or FormWizard::STEP_TYPE_DEFAULT
.
isSkipable (boolean)
: If current step can be skipped or not, see wiki for details.
limitRows (int)
: The number of rows to limit the tabular step Add Rows functionality in combination with the FormWizard::STEP_TYPE_TABULAR
, default is unlimited -1
. See Wiki.
model (object | array of models)
: The \yii\model\ActiveRecord
model object or array of models to create step fields.
Note: After the addition of the feature Tabular Steps when using 'type'=>'tabular'
you must remember that you cannot provide different models, although you can provide multiple instances when in edit mode but for the same model only.
While adding a new record you can have like below
$addressModel = new Address();
"steps"=>[
[
'title'=>'Step Title',
'type' => FormWizard::STEP_TYPE_TABULAR,
'model'=> $addressModel
]
]
When in Edit Mode you can provide the multiple instances of Address
//either using model directly
$addressModel = Address::find()
->where(
['=','user_id',Yii::$app->user->id]
)->all();
//or using the model relation if you have `getAddress()` defined inside
//the `User` model. `$user` has the selected user in code below
$addressModel = $user->address;
"steps"=>[
[
'title'=>'Step Title',
'type' => FormWizard::STEP_TYPE_TABULAR,
'model'=> $addressModel
]
]
title (string)
: The title of the step to be displayed inside the step Tab.
previewHeading
: The heading for the preview step, if enabled the text will show up as the heading for the step fields in the preview step.
description (string)
: The short description for the step.
formInfoText (text)
: The text to be displayed on the top of the form fields inside the step.
fieldOrder (array)
: The default order of the fields in the steps, if specified then the fields will be populated according to the order of the fields in the array, if not then the fields will be ordered according to the order in the fieldConfig
option, and if fieldConfig
option is not specified then the default order in which the attributes are returned from the model will be used.
stepHeadings (array)
: takes a collection of arrays to group step fields under the headings, it accepts arrays with the following keys. Wiki Code Sample
text (string)
the text to be displayed as the heading.before (string)
the field before which you want the heading to appear.icon (string)
the markup for the icon like <i class="fa-user"></i>
or the image tag with url you want to display, it defaults to
<i class="formwizard-quill-ico"></i>
. If you dont wish to use an icon you can pass false
.fieldConfig (array)
: This option is used mainly to customize the form fields for the step. 3 options are recognized inside the fieldConfig
, 2 of them are except
and only
. See below for the details
except (array)
: List of fields that should not be populated in the step or should be ignored, for example
'fieldConfig'=>[
'except'=>[
'created_on','updated_on'
]
]
By default all the attributes that are safe to load value are populated, and the id
or primary_key
is ignored by default.
only (array)
: list of the fields that should be populated for the step, only the fields specified in the list will be available and all other fields will be ignored.
Apart from the above options the fieldConfig
recognizes some special options specific to every field separately when customizing a field, for example
'fieldConfig'=>[
'username'=>[
'options'=>[
'class'=>'my-class'
]
]
]
when using multi model step you may encounter the situation where you have similar column/field names in both the models and specifying the field name only wont help, you can prefix the field names with the model name, the widget uses $model->formName()
method so be careful if you have overridden the formName()
function in your model then use the relevant name.
See an example below where you need to use the book
and user
model both in one step and you have the name
field in both the tables
'fieldConfig'=>[
'user.name'=>[
'options'=>[
'class'=>'my-class'
]
],
'book.name'=>[
'options'=>[
'class'=>'my-class'
]
],
]
you should specify the field name of the model and its customization settings in form of name=>value
pairs. The following special options can be used when specifying the form/model field_name
.
options
containerOptions
inputOptions
template
labelOptions
widget
multifield (boolean)
hint
tabularEvents
(used with the tabular steps)
persistenceEvents
(effective with enablePersistence
) See Wiki
See Wiki For Customizing Fields using options above
Details
depends (array)
Since V 1.7.2 (used with tabular step) .
options (array)
: You can specify the HTML attributes (name-value pairs) for the field
'field_name'=>['options'=>['class'=>'my-class']]`
All those special options that are recognized by the
checkbox(), radio()
: uncheck
, label
, labelOptions
checkboxList(), radioList()
: tag
, unselect
, encode
, separator
, itemOptions
, item
.
can be used with-in the options
option. The following 2 options are specially recognized by this widget when used with-in the options
.
type (string)
: The type of the form field to be created, this can be text
, dropdown
,checkbox
, radio
, textarea
, file
, password
, hidden
. Default value for this option is text
.
itemsList (string/array)
: This option can be used with a dropdown
, checkboxList
or radioList
. It is used in combination of the the option type
. If you provide the itemsList
an array and use the 'type'=>'checkbox'
, it will call checkboxList()
, and a checkbox()
if you provide string, same goes for the radioList and radio.
lableOptions (array)
: The HTML and special options for customizing the field label, you can use the following settings
label (string)
: The label text.
options (array)
: The HTML attributes (name-value pairs) for the label.
template (string)
: The template used for the field the default value used is {label}\n{input}\n{hint}\n{error}
.
containerOptions (array)
: HTML atrtibutes for the cotnainer tag used as name=>value
pairs.
widget
: This option can be used if you want to use a widget instead of the the default fields, you can specify the widget class name 'widget'=>widget::class
, and the options for the widget will be provided in the options
option. -inputOptions (array)
: this is same as the inputOptions
used by the ActiveForm field()
method.
multifield (boolean)
: a boolean which decides if the field name should consist of an array or not, for example using multi file upload widgets require the name
attribute for the field to be declared as an array like filed_name[]
instead of field_name
. you can pass this option as true by default it is false.
hint (string)
: it is used to provide a hint text for the field if you dont provide a custom hint text for any field it will attempt to show the custom hints that are provided inside the model by overriding the attributeHints()
, otherwise it wont show any hint.
tabularEvents (array)
: it takes an array as an argument with the following values beforeClone
, afterClone
and afterInsert
in the form "eventName"=>"function(event){}"
, see for details
beforeClone
: Takes a callback function(event){}
used for the PRE processing of the source element before it is cloned, using $(this)
inside the function callback referes to the element in the first rows always.
afterClone
: Takes a callback function(event){}
used for the POST processing of the source element before it is cloned, using\$(this)
inside the function callback referes to the element in the first rows always.
afterInsert
: Takes a callback function(event, params){console.log(params)}
used for the POST processing of the newly added element after it is cloned, using $(this)
inside the function callback referes to the newly added row.the params
is json object which holds the rowIndex
.
persistenceEvents (array)
: it accepts an array of events with the following name. (currently only afterRestore
is supported).
afteRestore
: take a callback as string "function(event,params){}"
to be called for post-restore operations, it provides 2 parameters event
and params
where params is a JSON {fieldId: "field_name",fieldValue: "field_value"}
.
depends (array)
: used with tabular step when you have dependent inputs and you want to show or hide them based on the value in the input it depends on when form is loaded to edit the values, see WIKI for code samples. It takes the following special parameters
attribute (string)
: the name of the attribute/fields the current field depends on, this parameter is required.
when (string)
: the value to check, or the value which is compared with the on which you need to show the current input, this parameter is required.
condition (string)
: the condition to evaluate the value of the dependent input with the given value in when
. default condition used is ==
.
then (callback)
: takes a new JsExpression()
encoded callback function function(id){}
, it takes one parameter id
that holds the id of the current input. If not provided it will call jQuery.show()
on the id of input it is applied on if the value matches in the when
option.
else (callback)
: takes a new JsExpression()
encoded callback function function(id){}
, it takes one parameter id
that holds the id of the current input. If not provided it will call jQuery.show()
on the id of input it is applied on if the value matches in the when
option.
Only the following options of the plugin SmartWizard are allowed to be customized
theme
Name of the theme to be used, there are mainly 6 themes supported by the plugin
default
: const THEME_DEFAULT
dots
: const THEME_DOTS
arrows
: const THEME_ARROWS
circles
: const THEME_CIRCLES
material
: const THEME_MATERIAL
material-v
: const THEME_MATERIAL_V
transitionEffect (string)
The effect used when sliding the step it can be one of the
none
slide
fade
showStepURLhash (boolean)
Show url hash based on step, default false
.
useURLHash (boolean)
Enable selection of the step based on url hash, default value is false
.
toolbarPosition
Position of the toolbar (none, top, bottom, both
), default value top
.
toolbarButtonPosition
Position of the toolbar buttons (left, right), default value is left.
toolbarExtraButtons
Specify the extra buttons and its events to show on toolbar.
markDoneSteps (boolean)
Make already visited steps as done, default value is true
.
markAllPreviousStepsAsDone (boolean)
When a step selected by url hash, all previous steps are marked done, default value is true
.
removeDoneStepOnNavigateBack (boolean)
While navigate back done step after active step will be cleared, default value is false
.
enableAnchorOnDoneStep (boolean)
Enable/Disable the done steps navigation, default value is true
.
FormWizard::ICON_NEXT
defaults to '<i class="formwizard-arrow-right-alt1-ico"></i>'
.FormWizard::ICON_PREV
defaults to '<i class="formwizard-arrow-left-alt1-ico"></i>'
.FormWizard::ICON_FINISH
defaults to '<i class="formwizard-check-alt-ico"></i>'
.FormWizard::ICON_ADD
defaults to '<i class="formwizard-plus-ico"></i>'
.FormWizard::ICON_RESTORE
defaults to '<i class="formwizard-restore-ico"></i>'
.FormWizard::BS_3
defaults to 3
.FormWizard::BS_4
defaults to 4
.FormWizard::STEP_TYPE_DEFAULT
defaults to 'default'
.FormWizard::STEP_TYPE_TABULAR
default to 'tabular'
.FormWizard::STEP_TYPE_PREVIEW
default to 'preview'
.FormWizard::THEME_DEFAULT
defaults to 'default'
.FormWizard::THEME_DOTS
defaults to 'dots'
.FormWizard::THEME_ARROWS
defaults to 'arrows'
.FormWizard::THEME_CIRCLES
defaults to 'circles'
.FormWizard::THEME_MATERIAL
defaults to 'material'
.FormWizard::THEME_MATERIAL_V
defaults to 'material-v'
.FormWizard::THEME_TAGS
defaults to 'tags'
.