-- Jon R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Saturday, 19 April 2008, 09:38 AM +0100):
> I like the way you can get individual elements from the form object
> using Zend_From::getElement(). Like so:
>
> echo $this->form->getElement('myElement');
BTW, Zend_Form uses overloading, so you can actually simplify this
further:
echo $this->form->myElement;
> I'm using this method to render certain elements (visually) elsewhere on
> the page, giving me greater flexibility over layout. However, when you
> render an element with Zend_From::getElement() it (rightly so) renders
> outside of the HTML <form> </form> tags.
>
> So my question is; how do i use Zend_From::getElement() to render an
> element inside of the HTML <form> </form> tags? I'm assuming i will have
> to render the opening <form> tag and closing form tag </form> using
> Zend_From::getElement() as well? - however i don't know how to do so!
Use the form() view helper:
echo $this->form(
$this->form->getAttrib('name'),
array(
'action' => $this->form->getAction(),
'method' => $this->form->getMethod()
),
$this->form->myElement->render($this)
);
Or, you can simply create the <form> tags by hand:
<form action="<?= $this->form->getAction()?>"
method="<?= $this->form->getMethod()?>">
<?= $this->form->myElement ?>
</form>
etc.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zend - The PHP Company | http://www.zend.com/
