That would be a good improvement. I always felt that way as well, but could
never put it down to clear description as you did :)
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Nick Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Bit of a shocker of a subject line but I'm a bit busy to think of a
> better one right now! The "cascading" is with reference to the way CSS
> works really .
>
> What I'm after is just some confirmation that the current general flow
> for the setting of default decorators with Zend_Form has to be
> something like this:
>
> - instantiate form
> - setup element 1
> - setup element 2
> - setup element 3
> - clear all current decorators
> - set my own element defaults
> - render
>
> ...or...
>
> - instantiate form
> - setup element 1
> - clear current decorators for element 1
> - set my own decorators for element 1
> - setup element 2
> - clear current decorators for element 2
> - set my own decorators for element 2
> - setup element 3
> - clear current decorators for element 3
> - set my own decorators for element 3
> - render
>
> ?
>
> The reason I ask is that I'd like to be able to work like so:
>
> - instantiate form
> - clear all current decorators
> - set my own element defaults
> - setup element 1
> - setup element 2 but tweak slightly from default
> - setup element 3
> - render
>
> With the affect working a bit like a subclass or the way CSS works
> whereby I clear and establish defaults before setting up my elements
> and then can alter each one as needed in a "cascading" way.
>
> This may already be possible but I wonder whether, judging by another
> comment on another post, the way I'm setting it up breaks it. I'm
> setting up each element by itself then adding it to the form like so...
>
> $email = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('email', array('label' => 'Email
> Address', 'size' => '30'));
> $email->addValidator('emailAddress');
> $this->addElement($email);
>
> ...and I wonder if using the factory approach would mean each element
> would inherit my previously set custom decoration:
>
> $this->addElement('text', 'email', array('label' => 'Email'));
>
> The point really is to cut down on what currently feels to be a lot of
> similar settings and the difficulty in having each element with just a
> slight variation here and there on my defaults.
>
> Hope that makes sense?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick
>
