Question

I have a page that has a form on top for selecting filters. When submitted, this form data is used in combination with Zend paginator to display results. But when I use paginator to page through the results, the form fields are lost as paginator does not post the form. Is there a simple way to combine these? I have had a difficult time searching for this as it is difficult to explain.

my controller is of this form…

    $form = new Application_Form_Myform();
    $request = $this->getRequest();
    if ($request->isPost()) {
        $data = $request->getPost();
        $form->populate($data);

        // get the data
        Zend_View_Helper_PaginationControl::setDefaultViewPartial('pagination.phtml');
        $reportsTBL = new Model_DBTable_Reports();
        $paginator = new Zend_Paginator(new Zend_Paginator_Adapter_Array($reportsTBL->getLog($data)));
        $paginator->setCurrentPageNumber($this->_getParam('page',1))
              ->setItemCountPerPage(50);
        $this->view->paginator = $paginator
    } 
    $this->view->form = $form;

As you can see, this gets the values from the form and retains them for first submit. But on subsequent pagination clicks, they get lost.
Thanks!

Answer 1

So simple, Use Zend Session to keep your filters .

Something like this

$sessionNamespace = new Zend_Session_Namespace('Zend_Searchs');
$sessionNamespace->filter = $this->_request->getParam('filter');
if(isset($sessionNamespace->filter )) {
// do your stuff
}