Form

Form represents a form.

To implement your own form fields, you need to have a thorough understanding of the data flow within a form. A form stores its data in three different representations:

(1) the "model" format required by the form's object (2) the "normalized" format for internal processing (3) the "view" format used for display

A date field, for example, may store a date as "Y-m-d" string (1) in the object. To facilitate processing in the field, this value is normalized to a DateTime object (2). In the HTML representation of your form, a localized string (3) is presented to and modified by the user.<