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->add_dropdown_field('field', 'Label', array('1' => 'My option', '2' => 'Another option'), 'required', '1');

Gives me a ton of SimpleXML errors if I set that last param (value).

Any ideas?

SSIA. Creating a form is too verbose. Here is some hint:

• Add sensible defaults for field setters parameters
• Make setters able to accept an array of parameters containing only what differs from default
• Mmmh... make defaults configurable? Interesting idea...

Up to 2.0 version, there is no "logical" clue on different form sections other than fieldsets (imagine a multistep form with several fieldsets in each step). Form Sections would be a way to "categorize" fields to fall into one or more sections. Think them as a field-tagging system that creates orthogonal sets of fields that can be rendered with a single command.

The solution I can foresee is to create a register of tags, with associated field names, so that I could reverse-search tagged fields.
This can be approached in one or more of the following:

• Add a property to all fields-adder methods to specify a list of tags
• Add a tag() method that take an array of fieldnames
• Add a ->tag() method that add tags fluently after a field creation

Any clue?

This must be a loader priority problem. I already stumbled in this with other sparks and I have to find a way to get rid of this.

As pointed out in this nice article http://nedbatchelder.com/text/stopbots.html there are three wonderful ways to get rid of spambots without punishing the user:

• Timestamp checking
• Honeypot field
• Field-names obfuscation + token field

Nice additions and they should be all optional from config file.

Version 2.x allow to create field groups as HTML fieldset elements. That's good enough since HTML fieldset is specifically designed for this task, but there is no way to "nest" fieldsets.

Solve this adding proper methods and handlers.

As of 2.0 there is no way to "import" a form into another one. Say I have an "Address" form and a "complete your order" one. While completing an order the user should specify both billing and shipping addresses. I could then just import/embed "Address" form twice, reusing code.

Some note on this:

• Add a parameter to import form as items only, wrapped within a fieldset and/or within a section (see issue #3)
• Add a parameter to specify field naming in relation to holding form

FluentForm shall not be fluent for developer only: we could make it a first-class user experience form factory by introducing three antispam measures:

• honeypot field
• timestamp validation
• fieldname shuffling and encoding

These three techniques can render a form nearly unbreakable while not punishing the user as a CAPTCHA does.

Automatic label generation now works for both camelCase and under_scored field names. It would be nice to set rendering style via a configuration option (ucifrst, capitalize, lower, upper and such).

If I have a checkbox on the page and I check it and then hit submit on the form, if the form returns with validation errors, the checkbox is no longer checked.

Also if I have a form where I set the checkbox to checked, it will not check the checkbox when it is rendered on the page. The code I am using is
$form->add_checkbox ('permissions['.$permission['id'].']', $permission['label'], $permission['id'], 'trim', TRUE);

Am I doing something wrong with either of these issues?

I am using the latest version of FluentForms. I have a MY_Form_validation which extended Form_validation. FluentForm is avoiding the custom validation methods in MY_Form_validation.