EJ Forms

Complex web forms built using a simple JSON syntax, with accompanying JS and PHP parsers.

Collecting information is a big part of why the internet exists, and forms are one of the most direct and well supported
ways to get that done. Web forms can be simple 2 field affairs such as for logins, but as applications and systems grow
they can become 30+ field monstrosities with branching logic, validation, and accessibility requirements. Coding all
these considerations is hard, and the HTML and JavaScript surrounding the forms can grow increasingly complex, making it
hard to find bugs and forcing you to reinvent the wheel every time. EJ forms are a simple human-readable JSON format
with an accompanying JS expander that will convert the JSON into live HTML, JS, and CSS to handle everything for you.

Attributions

This project was started as part of a survey system I built while working for EnggSoft at the University of Alberta.
It became clear that a general form system would be incredibly useful in a number of places on the site and so I
obtained permission to open source the code from my manager at the time Rick Patsula. Inspiration was drawn from

Contributing

Ideally in the future it would be beneficial to create a JavaScript GUI form creator to help even more people make web
forms. I'm also interested in turning this into a more portable web component, expanding the field and validation
options, etc. Take a look at the issues and feel free to submit a PR.

Licencing

This code is available under the MIT licence. Attribution and code contributions are appreciated.