Question

I have following class for a form:

class Application_Form_ContactForm extends Zend_Form
{
    public function init()
    {
      $this->setName('contact_us');
     /* 
       I have also used follwing statements (one by one) to set name attribute 
       // $this->setAttrib('name', 'myForm-name');
       // $this->setAttribs(array('name' => 'frm', 'id' => 'frmlogin')); 
     */
    }
}

When I run this form, I get follwoing html code:

<form id="contact_us" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" action="" method="post"><dl class="zend_form">

The above mentioned html code doesn’t show ‘name’ attribute of the form html tag.

Can some one guide me in this regards, how to rectify it.

Answer 1

The “name” attribute is allowed in HTML4 but has been deprecated in XHTML1.0. The HTML specification does not allow for a “name” attribute for forms. Check Here and here.

Zend Framework is just following the rules.

But why do you need a name is form anyway? Almost everything can be done using class and id.

But, if you really need it that bad try setting a ID first and then the name, it might work.