Ok, I get it now. So basically, ViewScript decorator is un-necessary in my
case; since we're taking the data and parsing it manually in a custom view
script.
When this is how the form is created:
$form = new Zend_Form();
$form->setAction('/usr/login')
->setMethod('post');
$this->view->form =$form;
$this->render('test');
test.phtml can then contain: (as you mentioned)
echo $this->form->foo;
echo $this->form->foo->getName(); // all good!
ahh.. Now only if I ever took a look at the __get() method's implementation
in Zend_Form!
Thanks a lot. I just added that for future reference - might be useful for
someone who needs to do something similar.
Matthew Weier O'Phinney-3 wrote:
>
> -- 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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