I want to use a view script to render my zend form as it seems to be the best way to
control the layout/design of the form while still using the Zend_Elements classes.
From the view script, I render the element with $this->element->getElement('elementName') .
I’m having problems with the names of the elements. This is actually a sub-form inside a sub-form inside a form.
When I used the FormElements decorators , the fully qualified name of the elements was form[subForm][subForm][element] , which was good.
Wehn I moved to the viewScript decorators, it changed to subForm[subForm][element].
I understood that I need to use the PrepareElements decorator to fix this, but this caused the name to change form[subForm][form][subForm][subForm][elements] (it doubled the first two names in the start).
Any ideas how I should handle this?
Thanks.
UPDATE: I tried to debug PrepareElements and I really don’t understand what is doing.
It seems like it works ok in the first iteration, but then it adds again the form[subform] prefix when running on one of the middle subforms.
When I’m not using the PrepareElements decorator, I’m just missing the “form” prefix in the names (i.e., instead of form[subForm][element], I get only subForm[element]).
May be I can just fix this somehow?
I tried to change the belongsTo but that only replaced the “subForm” prefix .
It actually seems like what is missing is a belongsTo method on the subForm.
Again, this is all because of the ViewScript decorator. It works fine with the FormElements decorators.
UPDATE 2: Just to clarify, I wouldn’t mind this name change, but it causes my fields to not populate when I call form->populate .
Edit: I think that I’ve narrowed the problem to this: when I get my values back in setDefaults, they are ordered like this:
array(
\"formElements1-name\" => value1... \"subFormName\" => array(
\"parentFormName\" => array(
\"subFormName\" => subForm-values-array
)
)
…
The main problem here is the "parentFormName" => "subFormNAme".. what does it repeat itself? I’m already in the main form. I’m guessing this is caused because I’ve set the setElementsBelongTo(formName[subFormName]) , but if I wouldn’t do that, then I would get my subform values completely separate from the form,
i.e.
values array = array(
\”formName\” => array(
formValues
), \”subFormNAme\” => array(
subFormValues
)
, while I exepct it to be
array(
formName => array(
subFormNAme => values-array
)
)...
Is it even possible to make this work?
The current solution is to use the PrepareElements decorator on the subforms with one change – remove the recursive call in the PrepareElements code. Also, no “setElementsBelongTo” is required.
This seem to generate the correct names and ids.