Creating Forms

Creating Forms

ActiveRecord based forms: ActiveForm

The primary way of using forms in Yii is through yii\widgets\ActiveForm. This approach should be preferred when the form is based upon a model. Additionally, there are some useful methods in yii\helpers\Html that are typically used for adding buttons and help text to any form.

A form, that is displayed on the client-side, will in most cases have a corresponding model which is used to validate its input on the server-s