-- Sagi Bashari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 01 July 2008, 02:31 PM +0300): > I can add a counter, but I can't see a good use for it - its value should be > identical to count($_POST['features']). > > And I will have to iterate over the features anyway to add the second level of > sub-forms (ItemForm).
This sounds like a reasonable solution to me, actually. > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Bart McLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would do like you do, inspect the post data. However, it would be nice > if > you would just have to know the number of subforms you are processing. > Javascript can easily update a counter in a hidden field on your mainform. > It increments the count each time you add a subform dynamically. This > counter is the only post element you will have to evaluate in order to > know > how many subforms to process. > > Bart McLeod > > Sagi Bashari schreef: > > > Hello, > > I have a form that can generate any number of input fields dynamically > (the fields are generated using javascript). > > The fields have some nested sub-form structure: > 1. There can be many "feature" forms, and each has a name: features > [feature0,..,featureN][name] > 2. Each of these feature forms has many items, and each item has a > name: features[feature0][items][item0,..,itemN][name] > > (Actually they have many other fields except the name but this is > enough for the example). > > I managed to handle a static number of such sub-forms with Zend_Form, > by attaching multiple instances of a FeatureForm to my main form, and > attaching multiple instances of ItemForm to the FeatureForm (inside a > container sub-form). > > However, I wonder how can I add these sub-forms dynamically. > > I thought about creating some pre-processing method that will get the > $_POST data, inspect it and add fields accordingly before calling > isValid(). > > Can anyone think of a better (more Zend_Form-like) way of handling > such > situation? > > Thanks, > Sagi > > -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
