Question

I’m creating a website in which I have an array of sub forms to display. I’ve fiddled around with Zend_Form::setIsArray(true) but apart from the fact that I cannot really grasp what exactly it does, I have the feeling this isn’t what I’m looking for anyway.

This is more or less what I had in mind;

<form>
  <form id="Paragraph[0]">
    <input name="Paragraph[0]['text']" type="text">
    <input name="Paragraph[0]['heading']" type="text">
  </form>
  <form id="Paragraph[1]">
    <input name="Paragraph[1]['text']" type="text">
    <input name="Paragraph[1]['heading']" type="text">
  </form>
</form>

EDIT: I might be better off using <fieldset>s rather than nested forms. Is this the case?

Answer 1

With subforms, you can do this:

<form>
  <form id="Paragraph0">
    <input name="Paragraph0[text]" type="text">
    <input name="Paragraph0[heading]" type="text">
  </form>
  <form id="Paragraph1">
    <input name="Paragraph1[text]" type="text">
    <input name="Paragraph1[heading]" type="text">
  </form>
</form>

Then, you’ll have :

$_POST = array(
  'Paragraph0' => array('text' => ..., 'heading' => ...),
  'Paragraph1' => array('text' => ..., 'heading' => ...)
)

Look at the doc here : http://framework.zend.com/manual/fr/zend.form.advanced.html