Thanks. But I don't see how can it be applied to a full form.
For example, a form created like this:
$form = new Zend_Form();
$form->setAction('/usr/login')
->setMethod('post')
->setDecorators(array(array('ViewScript',
array('class' => 'form
element', 'viewScript' => 'index/form-test.phtml'))));
// Create and configure username element:
$username = $form->createElement('text', 'username');
<snip>
Here, the viewScript is decorator is set to form-test.phtml, but I can't
decorate the whole form using the view script? I will have hundreds of files
if I have to create a view file for each element that needs more control
(and allows designers to edit).
Matthew Weier O'Phinney-3 wrote:
>
> -- asadkn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> (on Friday, 11 April 2008, 02:25 PM -0700):
>> I want to keep the forms separated in the views and thus would like to
>> parse
>> generated forms in views. Instead of relying on Zend_Form decorators
>> generated HTML, I would like to do it all manually. It gets extremely
>> messy
>> when I have to use decorators with few of my HTML-rich forms.
>
> Please check out the ViewScript decorator in the documentation; this is
> probably the best fit for your needs. Set your form to use this
> decorator, and then you can customize the output of your form as you see
> fit. You can find that documentation on the following manual page:
>
>
> http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.form.standardDecorators.html#zend.form.standardDecorators.viewScript
>
>> Perhaps I want to create <div> and other such HTML elements myself, but
>> use
>> Zend_Form's decorators to create the input, select, etc. (and obviously
>> have
>> them filled when editing). That still should save me from writing lot of
>> repeated code.
>>
>> In views, I wish if something like this was possible: (where $this->form
>> is
>> a form created using Zend_Form in the controller)
>>
>> <div> - <?php echo $this->form->getElement('username')->render();
>> ?></div>
>
> In your view script (used with the ViewScript decorator, as recomended
> above), you could do exactly that, only easier:
>
> <div><?php echo $this->form->username ?></div>
>
>> As I see it, each element's data is protected and thus cannot be accessed
>> from outside. Maybe I should try sub-classing Zend_Form each time but
>> that
>> still will require me to spend a lot of time to figure out how to do it
>> right.
>
> Not true -- there are accessors for every member stored in the form
> elements, and most metadata is actually directly accessible as virtual
> members using overloading. Please read up on the documentation:
>
>
> http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.form.elements.html#zend.form.elements.metadata
>
>
> --
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Zend - The PHP Company | http://www.zend.com/
>
>
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