Hi Robert, I'm not sure how this relates to Zend Framework; it seems more appropriate for the VDaemon forum. Maybe I'm missing something?
My thoughts: I've never been a fan of Smarty (especially after working with it regularly...) and Zend_Form is awesome. Does that help? ;-) -Matt On Wed, May 7, 2008 11:58 am, Robert Gormley wrote: > 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
