View Helpers

FormUrl

The FormUrl view helper can be used to render an <input type="url"> HTML form input. It is meant to work with the Url element, which provides a default input specification with an URL validator.

Basic usage

use Laminas\Form\Element;

$element = new Element\Url('my-url');

// Within your view...
echo $this->formUrl($element);

Output:

<input type="url" name="my-url" value="">

Usage of custom regular expression pattern:

use Laminas\Form\Element;

$element = new Element\Url('my-url');
$element->setAttribute('pattern', 'https?://.+');

// Within your view...
echo $this->formUrl($element);

Output:

<input type="url" name="my-url" pattern="https?://.+" value="">