Question

So here’s the problem. We have some big dojo forms created using Zend_Dojo_Form. The problem is that validation, while working per element, does not work on any of the submit buttons. Due to the inflexibility of the standard layouts, we’re compelled to use viewscripts.

I thought I had the whole thing working fine, that was until I needed to make sure that when you went from page to page of the multipage form using the quick links that it submitted the current page (with validation.)

I noticed that when I force-fired the click event on the submit button, no validation was occurring (or rather, there was no preventing the form submission if there were invalid values. Those values just were not submitted.)

So I looked at some tutorials where I found that the form is validated by calling

dijit.byId('form-id').validate();

or the shortcut I was looking for, primarily (originally)

dijit.byId('form-id').submit();

Neither of which are functions, since the byId is returning undefined. What this means is our viewscript – or whatever the whole process is – generating dojo forms with Zend is partly voodoo anyway – does not actually generate the dojo form dijit.

So how does one do this in a viewscript? As in, what sort of php calls or attribs does one attach to the form tag to get it to be interpreted by Dojo to be the basis for a form dijit?

Here is the code from the viewscript:

<form action="<?= $this->escape($this->element->getAction()) ?>"
      method="<?= $this->escape($this->element->getMethod()) ?>"
      id="case-record-form">

Answer 1

This sounds very similar to a problem I had. If I rendered the form by echoing it, validation worked, but when using a viewscript it would not. I discovered that when using a viewscript, Zend does not add the form to its zendDijits array, so you have to do it manually.

Add something like:

$script = 'zendDijits.push({"id":"MyFormId","params":{"dojoType":"dijit.form.Form"}})';
$this->headScript()->appendScript($script);

at the top of the viewscript.