Without a doubt the most requested feature for jQuery formBuilder has been JSON support and it finally arrives in v1.16.0.
Breaking Changes
In previous versions a <textarea> element was required to insert formBuilder where it was needed on a page- this is no longer supported. There are numerous reasons for the removal but among the top 3 are :
- It’s slow. In addition to saving data internally, formBuilder continued to write that same data to the
<textarea>for legacy support. - The
<textarea>needed to be manipulated on re-render and forced developers to add an arbitrary tag to their html for the sake of formBuilder - It’s just bad practice
The removal of <textarea> means formBuilder is now initialized on the containing element or more specifically, the element that will hold the builder. Example:
$('.build-wrap').formBuilder();
Previously formData could be saved directly from textarea.value or $(textarea).val()– no more. FormBuilder’s formData is now located in data('formBuilder').formData on the jQuery object formBuilder is initialized on.
I want to use this as a dynamic profile generator by an administrator. I’m using Codeigniter.
The part that i cannot figure is how i save the json data and then display it with the form-render.
Check out http://formbuilder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, specifically the Data section. Also the repo has a demo that shows data going in and out of the plugin and if youre still stuck someone in the Gitter may have any idea about specific codeigniter process.