Hello there, A customer of mine requires me to create some kind of "locked" for fields. Not entering in the details for this stuff, but I need to store somewhere: a) the Zend_Form_Element value b) the Zend_Form_Element_Checkbox value (a checkbox that defines the field as "locked")
Here's the big trouble: this customer is completely focused on graphic details (omg!) and absolutely wants display groups. Here's a preview of what I currently have and that has to be reworked in a Zend_Form based implementation: http://marco-pivetta.com/screenshots/Zend_Form_DisplayGroup_and_parallel_fields.png (the switches on the right are checkboxes hidden by css sprites) In a normal case I would have built some form like this one: //Pseudocode $form = new MyForm(array( 'field1' => new LockedFieldForm(( new Zend_Form_Element_Text('field', /*...*/), new Zend_Form_Element_Checkbox('lock', /*...*/) )), 'field2' => new LockedFieldForm(( new Zend_Form_Element_Textarea('field', /*...*/), new Zend_Form_Element_Checkbox('lock', /*...*/) )), 'field3' => new LockedFieldForm(( new Zend_Form_Element_Select('field', /*...*/), new Zend_Form_Element_Checkbox('lock', /*...*/) )), 'field1' => new LockedFieldForm(( new Zend_Form_Element_OtherStuff('field', /*...*/), new Zend_Form_Element_Checkbox('lock', /*...*/) )), )); This allows me to play around with decorators within a "row" of my form and encapsulate my field persistence logic within a LockedFieldForm, by hiding the entire "lock" stuff. I can also play around with decorators to let subforms look exactly like other form elements... The pitfall is that Zend_Form_DisplayGroup allows me to group only elements of the same form (as far as I know), and would also make it hard to couple fields with their locks. As you can see in the screenshot linked before, I need to separate some fields keeping them in the same form. This is what DisplayGroup(s) are for. What I was trying to achieve is something like: $displayGroup->addElement($form->getSubForm('field1')); //Obviously doesn't work... Any ideas/suggestions? Shall I tell my customer that I can't use display groups? Is there some other method to encapsulate the lock logic? Anything different from Zend_Form_SubForm? Extending Zend_Form_Element seems to be quite complicated... Thank you in advance for any hints :) Marco Pivetta @Ocramius <http://twitter.com/Ocramius> http://marco-pivetta.com
