Question

I have a controller with this action below:

public function addAction()
{
    //action for the comments submission
    $form = new Application_Form_Comment();
    $form->submit->setLabel('Comment');
    $this->view->form = $form;
    if ($this->getRequest()->isPost()) {
        $formData = $this->getRequest()->getPost();
        if ($form->isValid($formData)) {
        $comment = new Application_Model_DbTable_Comments();
        $comment->addComment($formData['comment'], $id);
            $this->_helper->redirector('index');
        } else {
            $form->populate($formData);
        }
    }

In my view if I echo $this->form;
The form doesn’t show.

Rik

Answer 1

Assuming you are trying to separate the form from any particular controller, you could use a view helper. Writing your own is quite easy.

Create the file application/views/helpers/CommentForm.php which will contain:-

class Zend_View_Helper_CommentForm extends Zend_View_Helper_Abstract
{
    public function commentForm()
    {
        $form = new Application_Form_Comment();
        return $form;
    }
}

Then in whichever view you need it in just do:-

echo $this->commentForm();

Which will render your form.