-- asadkn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 02:18 PM -0700):
> 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 = $form->createElement('text', 'username');
> <snip>
>
> Here, the viewScript is decorator is set to form-test.phtml, but I can't
> decorate the whole form using the view script? I will have hundreds of files
> if I have to create a view file for each element that needs more control
> (and allows designers to edit).
You can loop over the form and render each item separately, or pull the
items out individually to render them:
<? foreach ($this->form as $item):
// iteration occurs over elements, sub forms, and display groups ?>
<?= $item?><? // render an invidual form item ?>
<? endforeach ?>
// or
<form ....>
some content
<?= $this->form->foo ?>
</form>
You can use the ViewScript on the form object so that you can do a more
complex form layout, and continue using standard decorators on the
elements. Or you can pull information from the individual elements in
order to build the HTML:
<input type="text" name="username"
value="<?= $this->form->username->getValue() ?>" />
etc.
> 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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