PHPForm - Open Source Headless Form Management Server

Welcome to PHPForm, a fully open-source, headless form builder designed with simplicity, efficiency, and privacy in mind. Built to be easily installed on any budget-friendly hosting solution or free cloud tiers, PHPForm is the perfect choice for developers and businesses looking for a reliable and GDPR-compliant form management solution.

Features

• Headless Architecture: PHPForm is built as a headless server, offering flexibility and ease of integration with various frontend systems.
• Robust Admin Panel: Manage your forms with ease using our user-friendly admin panel, designed for efficient and intuitive form management.
• Cost-Effective: Designed to run smoothly on inexpensive hosting or free cloud services, reducing your operational costs.
• GDPR Compliant: We prioritize your data privacy. PHPForm ensures that all your data remains yours, complying fully with GDPR regulations.
• Browser Push and Email notifications: Get notified when a new form submission is received.
• Captcha Protection: Protect your forms from spam and abuse with different Captcha providers.
• Token-based Protection: Ideal protection for mobile and desktop apps.

Requirements

PHP Version

• PHP 8.2 or higher.

PHP Extensions

• GD
• ZIP
• XML

Supported Databases

• SQLite
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• MariaDB
• AuroraDB

License

PHPForm is released under MIT, ensuring it remains free and open for use and modification.

Getting Started

• Deploying on cloud hosting

• Deploying on shared hosting

• Running locally with docker

• Running locally without docker

• Deploy instructions

Running locally with docker

Use the latest image from docker hub to run it locally:

docker run --name phpform -d -p 9000:9000 phpform/phpform-server:latest

Copy environment file and adjust it to your needs:

cp .env.prod .env

Run DB migrations from container

docker exec -it phpform bash
php bin/console doctrine:migrations:diff
php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate

Running locally with PHP server

Make sure you have PHP 8.2 and composer installed. Checkout the repository jump to the folder. Copy environment file and adjust it to your needs:

cp .env.prod .env

Install dependencies:

composer install

Run database migrations:

php bin/console doctrine:migrations:diff
php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate

Run the server:

php -S localhost:8000 -t public

Deploying on shared hosting

Build the project on your local machine or download prebuild release. Upload the files to your shared hosting. Make sure you make "public" folder as your main folder.

Deploying on cloud hosting

You can deploy PHPForm on any cloud hosting provider that supports PHP 8.2 or higher. Also you can use PHPForm Docker Image to deploy PHPForm on any cloud hosting provider that supports docker.

Make sure you:

• Set the environment variable APP_ENV to prod
• Set the environment variable APP_SECRET to a random string
• Set the environment variable DATABASE_URL to your database connection string

Copy environment file with default values:

cp .env.prod .env

Please make sure you made /app/var as persistent storage if you use SQLite. If you want to use other database please change DATABASE_URL env variable.

Run database migrations:

php bin/console doctrine:migrations:diff
php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate

Troubleshooting

Vendor folder is missing

If you see an error that the vendor folder is missing, you need to install the dependencies.

Warning: require_once(/app/vendor/autoload_runtime.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /app/public/index.php on line 5

The main problem usually when you run composer install from the root user. If you still want to run composer install from the root user, you can use the following command:

COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 composer install

Deploy instructions

• Installing PHPForm on DigitalOcean Apps

Frontend components

PHPForm is a headless form server. This means that you can use any frontend framework to build your forms. We provide a set of frontend components that you can use to build your forms.

Soon will be available components for React, Vue, Angular, Svelte and more.

Stay in touch with us on Twitter to get the latest updates.