Question

i have a question about using Zend_Form_Decorator_Label,in order to get following result when form element is required i need to get Label-text * and i’m wondering how to achive that in most reusable way?

Is it to write new decorator or to override zend_View_helper_FormLabel ?
Maybe there are other ways to achive that?

Any help will be appreciate.

Answer 1

You can add one of the following options when you create decorator:

• optionalPrefix: a prefix to the label to use when the element is optional
• optionalSuffix: a suffix to the label to use when the element is optional
• requiredPrefix: a prefix to the label to use when the element is required
• requiredSuffix: a suffix to the label to use when the element is required

Code example:

$elementDecorators = array(
    'ViewHelper',
    array('Label', array('requiredSuffix' => ' *')),
);

$userName = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('userName');
$userName->setDecorators($elementDecorators);
$userName->setLabel('User Name');

Or alternatively you can explicitly set suffix/prefix on existing decorator:

$userName->getDecorator('Label')->setReqSuffix(' *');
$userName->getDecorator('Label')->setOptSuffix('(Optional) ');