Enh #15226: Auto generate placeholder from fields

framework/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Yii Framework 2 Change Log
 
 2.0.14 under development
 ------------------------
-
+- Enh #15226: Auto generate placeholder from fields (vladis84)
 - Bug #15356: Fixed multiple bugs in `yii\db\Query::getTablesUsedInFrom()` (vladis84, samdark)
 - Bug #14157: Add support for loading default value `CURRENT_TIMESTAMP` of MySQL `datetime` field (rossoneri)
 - Bug #15046: Throw an `yii\web\HeadersAlreadySentException` if headers were sent before web response (dmirogin)

framework/helpers/BaseHtml.php

@@ -1359,9 +1359,25 @@ class BaseHtml
     public static function activeTextInput($model, $attribute, $options = [])
     {
         self::normalizeMaxLength($model, $attribute, $options);
+        self::activePlaceholder($model, $attribute, $options);
         return static::activeInput('text', $model, $attribute, $options);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Generate placeholder from model label.
+     * @param Model $model the model object
+     * @param string $attribute the attribute name or expression. See [[getAttributeName()]] for the format
+     * about attribute expression.
+     * @param array $options the tag options in terms of name-value pairs. These will be rendered as
+     * the attributes of the resulting tag. The values will be HTML-encoded using [[encode()]].
+     */
+    protected static function activePlaceholder($model, $attribute, &$options = [])
+    {
+        if (isset($options['placeholder']) && $options['placeholder'] === true) {
+            $options['placeholder'] = $model->getAttributeLabel($attribute);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Generates a hidden input tag for the given model attribute.
      * This method will generate the "name" and "value" tag attributes automatically for the model attribute
@@ -1458,6 +1474,7 @@ class BaseHtml
             $options['id'] = static::getInputId($model, $attribute);
         }
         self::normalizeMaxLength($model, $attribute, $options);
+        self::activePlaceholder($model, $attribute, $options);
         return static::textarea($name, $value, $options);
     }
 

tests/framework/helpers/HtmlTest.php

@@ -1579,6 +1579,24 @@ HTML;
         $actual = Html::activeCheckboxList($model, 'types', ['foo']);
         $this->assertEqualsWithoutLE($expected, $actual);
     }
+
+    public function testActiveTextInput_placeholderFillFromModel()
+    {
+        $model = new HtmlTestModel();
+
+        $html = Html::activeTextInput($model, 'name', ['placeholder' => true]);
+
+        $this->assertContains('placeholder="Name"', $html);
+    }
+
+    public function testActiveTextInput_customPlaceholder()
+    {
+        $model = new HtmlTestModel();
+
+        $html = Html::activeTextInput($model, 'name', ['placeholder' => 'Custom placeholder']);
+
+        $this->assertContains('placeholder="Custom placeholder"', $html);
+    }
 }
 
 /**