Question

I have a zend form, and I need to provide a dynamic link on the form. ie. user tries to select from drop-down -> if desired option not present, click on the adjacent link to open another form where they can add the option. The link will be dynamic because I want to post some data from the current form using GET (the country and region already selected for example).

How can I do this?

Answer 1

You could do this client-side using javascript/AJAX – detect clicking on the link, collect form data and continue to a different page. If you need a fancy URL of the other page, you’d have to make an AJAX call to the server to get the fancy URL based on the form parameters,

or

make the link a submit button actually, process the form server-side (detecting that the special submit button was clicked; example here) and do a redirect to your other page.

As for rendering the link next to a Zend_Form_Element, you can do this in a few ways, one of them would be placing it in the label or description (setLabel(), setDescription()) while making sure to set the escape parameter of the decorator to false (example here)