Question

Right now I’m populating/setDefaults a zend_form like this from the controller:

 $data = array('user' => $account->getUser(), 
            'password' => $account->getPassword(), 
            'name' => $account->getName());

 $form->setDefaults($data);

It’s working but seams very manual the process. Is there a better way to do it?

Answer 1

The solution that I apply was to add this function to the entity:

public function toArray ()
{
    return get_object_vars($this);
}

And then just:

$form->setDefaults($test->toArray());

Also if you need to do it the other way arround (array to object) you can take a look here