Question

All I want to do is make a form, in Zend Framework, that looks like this:

<p id="foo">
<form action="#" method="post">
<label>Start:</label> 
<input id="start" type="text" name="start" /> 
<label>End:</label> 
<input id="end" type="text" name="end" /> 
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
</p>

and I simply cannot do it. 🙁 I can stick in in the view like that but then I don’t get validation and filtering.

Any tips on how to figure out decorators and Zend_Form?

Answer 1

This works. I’ve adapted this from a form I’m using so I stuck in a few other things like ID’s that you can use if you like. Useful to see how it all comes together anyway:

In my controller:

private function _theForm() {
$form = new Zend_Form;
        $form->setAction('/controller/action')
                ->setMethod('post')
                ->addAttribs(array('id' => 'an_id_for_the_form'));

        $form->addElement('text', 'start', array(
            'validators' => array(
                'NotEmpty'
            ),
            'label' => 'Start:',
            'id' => 'someid',
            'required' => true,
            'decorators' => array(
                'ViewHelper',
                'Errors',
                'Label',
            ),
        ));
        $form->addElement('text', 'end', array(
            'validators' => array(
                'NotEmpty'
            ),
            'label' => 'End:',
            'id' => 'someotherid_if_you_like',
            'required' => true,
            'decorators' => array(
                'ViewHelper',
                'Errors',
                'Label',
                ),
        ));
        $form->addElement('submit', 'submitSomething', array(
            'label' => 'Submit',
            'decorators' => array(
                'ViewHelper',
            )
            ));

        $form->setDecorators(array(
            'FormElements',
            array('HtmlTag', array('tag' => 'p', 'id' => 'foo')),
            'Form',
        ));

        return $form;
}

I then call that elsewhere in my controller, like:

$form = $this->_theForm();
$this->view->form = $form;

Then you can use it in your view like:

 <?php echo $this->form; ?>