Question

I have a form build with zend using a viewscript. I thought that by using a viewscript I’d get all the dd and dt eliminated and be able to use my own html tags on the form of the form script file (patientScriptForm.phtml)?

How do I use only the div tags in my form script file and not auto-generated dt and dd tags? Thanks!!

I have a very basic form with code below:

$age = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('age'); $age->setLabel('age');

$submit = new Zend_Form_Element_Submit('submit'); $submit->setValue($submit);

$this->addElement($age)->addElement($submit); 

$this->setDecorators(array ( array ('ViewScript',    array('viewScript' => 'patientScriptForm.phtml'))));

Below is my viewscript patientScriptForm.phtml

<form action="<?php echo $this->escape($this->element->getAction()) ?>" method="<?php echo $this->escape($this->element->getMethod()) ?>"> 
<div> 
<?php echo $this->element->age ?>
</div> 
<div>
<?php echo $this->element->submit ?>
</div> 
</form>

Below is the browser output:

<form action="" method="post"> 
<div> 
<dt id="age-label">
<label for="age" class="optional">age</label>
</dt> 
<dd id="age-element"> 
<input type="text" name="age" id="age" value="" />
</dd>
</div> 
<div>
<dt id="submit-label"> 
</dt>
<dd id="submit-element"> 
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="submit" />
</dd>
</div> 
</form>

Answer 1

The problem is that whilst using the ViewScript decorator for the form works for the form element itself, your elements each have their own default decorator scheme.

A simple solution in your view script could be

<?php echo $this->element->age->setDecorators(array('ViewHelper')) ?>