Question

How would You populate Zend_Form_Element_Select with options direct from Zend_Db_Table_Row?

For instance:

    $select = new Zend_Form_Element_Select('user_id', array(
        'required'  => true
        ));

    // fetching users for select
    $userTable = new User_Model_DbTable_User();
    $users = $userTable->fetchAll();
    $select->addMultiOptions($users->toArray());

But this will not work to good. Let say I want to have object id as a option value and some object property as an select label.

I know I can run foreach thourgh the rowset and construct an array of options but maybe there is some kind of map function?

Answer 1

Any map function you create would be iterating the rowset so you might as well simply do that, eg

foreach ($users as $user) {
    $select->addMultiOption($user->id, $user->someObjectProperty);
}