Thank you. This interchange was extremely helpful for me. You and the others
working on ZF are doing a fantastic job modernizing PHP coding practices.
And this Nabble forum is a great support system.
Matthew Weier O'Phinney-3 wrote:
>
> -- Ken Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> (on Friday, 05 September 2008, 12:30 AM -0700):
>> After some fiddling around, I downloaded a copy of dojo from the
>> dojotoolkit.org web site and replaced the code that had shipped with ZF
>> 1.6.
>> This fixed the "undefined node" problem and the button began to render.
>>
>> I implemented all of the changes you recommended for the bootstrap and
>> the
>> code is now cleaner in the layout.
>>
>> But I have a related question. I have been trying to discover an optimal
>> way
>> to hook-up dojo with elements programmatically. Currently, I'm not using
>> the
>> form view helpers to render out the elements. I'm just hard coding the
>> HTML.
>>
>> Here is the significant portion of my index view script:
>> -------------
>> <?php $this->dojo()->javascriptCaptureStart() ?>
>> function alert1()
>> {
>> alert("go 1");
>> }
>> function alert2()
>> {
>> alert("go 2");
>> }
>> <?php $this->dojo()->javascriptCaptureEnd() ?>
>>
>> <?php $this->dojo()->onLoadCaptureStart() ?>
>> function() {
>>
>> var params1 = {
>> label: "I am button 1",
>> onClick: alert1
>> };
>> var params2 = {
>> label: "I am button 2",
>> onClick: alert2
>> };
>>
>> new dijit.form.Button( params1, dojo.byId("button1"));
>> new dijit.form.Button( params2, dojo.byId("button2"));
>>
>> }
>> <?php $this->dojo()->onLoadCaptureEnd() ?>
>> -------------
>>
>> I then hard code a couple of buttons and give them the proper ids so that
>> dojo.byId can find them.
>>
>> Is this a reasonable approach. Can you recommend something more
>> streamlined,
>> cleaner, clearer? Are there emerging best practices?
>
> Everything you do above for creating the buttons (not the functions they
> attach to, though) is already possible with the view helpers; it makes
> no sense to me to write the code manually, as this is what the
> integration points try to solve.
>
> You can create your buttons like this:
>
> <?= $this->button('button1', 'I am button 1', array('onClick' =>
> 'alert1')) ?>
> <?= $this->button('button2', 'I am button 2', array('onClick' =>
> 'alert2')) ?>
>
> which will create all the functionality you need, and, by default, do it
> programmatically. You would then only need the code you provided for
> creating the alert1/alert2 functions. There is really zero reason to
> write the javascript manually as you are doing here.
>
>> Matthew Weier O'Phinney-3 wrote:
>> >
>> > -- Ken Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>> > (on Thursday, 04 September 2008, 01:54 PM -0700):
>> >> I need some (I hope) very basic help in getting dojo up and working
>> and
>> >> some
>> >> notion of how to do not have to use the declarative syntax would also
>> be
>> >> great.
>> >
>> > First off, programmatic usage is the default, so nothing specialy you
>> > need to do there.
>> >
>> >> Here are the contents of the files in question:
>> >> bootstrap.php:
>> >> -------------
>> >> <?php
>> >> // ** Check to see if the environment is already setup **
>> >> if (isset($bootstrap) && $bootstrap) {
>> >> // Enable all errors so we'll know when something goes wrong.
>> >> error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);
>> >> ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
>> >> ini_set('display_errors', 1);
>> >>
>> >> set_include_path('../library');
>> >>
>> >> require_once "Zend/Loader.php";
>> >> Zend_Loader::registerAutoload();
>> >>
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> $frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
>> >>
>> $frontController->setControllerDirectory('../application/controllers');
>> >> $frontController->setParam('env', 'development');
>> >>
>> >> // set up dojo helper
>> >> $viewRenderer =
>> >> Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('ViewRenderer');
>> >> $viewRenderer->initView();
>> >> Zend_Dojo::enableView($viewRenderer->view);
>> >
>> > That's all you need to do there. I'd do the following additional stuff:
>> >
>> > $viewRenderer->view->dojo()->setLocalPath('/js/dojo/dojo/dojo.js')
>> >
>> > ->addStyleSheetModule('dijit.themes.tundra')
>> > ->disable();
>> >
>> >> //set up the layout
>> >> Zend_Layout::startMvc(array('layoutPath' =>
>> >> '../application/views/layouts'));
>> >> -------------
>> >>
>> >> layout.phtml:
>> >> -------------
>> >> <?php echo $this->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT'); ?>
>> >>
>> >> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
>> >> <head>
>> >> <?php echo $this->headTitle(); ?>
>> >> <?php echo $this->headMeta(); ?>
>> >> <?php echo $this->headLink(); ?>
>> >> <?php echo $this->headStyle(); ?>
>> >> <?php
>> >> if ($this->dojo()->isEnabled()) :
>> >> $this->dojo()->setLocalPath('/js/dojo/dojo/dojo.js')
>> >> ->addStyleSheetModule('dijit.themes.tundra');
>> >> echo $this->dojo();
>> >> endif;
>> >> ?>
>> >
>> > If you do as I suggest earlier, then all you need to do here is:
>> >
>> > <?php echo $this-dojo(); ?>
>> >
>> >> <?php echo $this->headScript(); ?>
>> >> </head>
>> >> <body class="tundra">
>> >>
>> >> <?php echo $this->layout()->content; ?>
>> >>
>> >> </body>
>> >> </html>
>> >> -------------
>> >>
>> >> and the index view, index.phtml
>> >> -------------
>> >> <?php
>> >> $this->dojo()->enable()
>> >> ->setDjConfigOption('parseOnLoad', true)
>> >
>> > Only set parseOnLoad if you need to --- i.e., if you're creating markup
>> > that defines dijits. It looks like you're doing that below, though.
>> >
>> >> ->requireModule('dijit.form.Button');
>> >> ?>
>> >>
>> >> <button dojoType="dijit.form.Button" id="helloButton">
>> >> Hello World!
>> >> <script type="dojo/method" event="onClick">
>> >> alert('You pressed the button');
>> >> </script>
>> >> </button>
>> >>
>> >> -------------
>> >>
>> >> What happens:
>> >> The page loads but I get a JavaScript error that says "node is
>> undefined"
>> >> coming from bootstrap.js in the dojo library. The page is blank and,
>> >> looking
>> >> at the DOM's view of the HTML (using Firebug) I see only:<div
>> >> style="display: none;"/>
>> >
>> > Is the path to dojo correct? did dojo.js load? does FireBug report that
>> > dijit.form.Button loaded?
>> >
>> >> So, something is wrong, but I sure can't figure out what.
>> >>
>> >> Also, if someone has a fix for this, I would certainly appreciate an
>> >> example
>> >> of rendering out the same button example but programmatically. I would
>> >> rather not have all those proprietary attributes in the button code.
>> >
>> > First off, I wouldn't call it proprietary markup -- they're simply
>> > attributes, plain and simple.
>> >
>> > You can definitely do this programmatically, though:
>> >
>> > <?= $this->button('helloButton', 'Hello World!') ?>
>> > <? $this-dojo->onLoadCaptureStart() ?>
>> > function() {
>> > dojo.connect('helloButton', 'onclick', 'alert("You pressed the
>> > button")');
>> > }
>> > <? $this-dojo->onLoadCaptureEnd() ?>
>> >
>> > should do the trick (unsure of the alert statement in there, but I
>> think
>> > it's correct).
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Matthew Weier O'Phinney
>> > Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
>> >
>> >
>>
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> Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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