This may be a simple question, or it may not. We are using Zend Framework with Smarty as the front end to a DBMS. One of the requirements is the dynamic generation of forms (at the back, I do a query of the DB server to get table structures and data integrity rules, etc), and in the Model in ZF, I dynamically build a form with all the elements as required. This form is then assigned into a Smarty variable, and rendered via the usual display .tpl method. We want to use VDaemon (joint server/client side form validation library) - and whilst it should work with "vanilla" smarty, a la http://forum.x-code.com/viewtopic.php?t=39, I'm not sure how to do this via Smarty, in that I want to be sure that if I put the VDaemon style tags into the tpl as described above (by variable "substitution" {$formsubstance}, is that the blob that's returned back to the browser, or am I missing something fundamental? One hiccup that comes to mind isn't a Smarty issue per se, but relates to (as you can see from the sample code) how that will be handled in a View.
I appreciate that this is an esoteric request. It may well be that the advice is "Go To ZendForm, ZendLayout" and if that really is for the best, so be it (though Zend Form is far more palatable, as we've already got a substantial, and working, investment in Smarty, re Layout). Robert
