-- fozzyuw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Tuesday, 09 September 2008, 07:24 AM -0700):
> I've been searching and playing around with Zend_Form for a while and I've
> gotten a much better grasp, but I'm stilling hitting a brick wall on
> something. I'm trying to get this code structure...
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> <form>
> <fieldset>
> <legend>My Form</legend>
> <dl>
> <dt><label>Element 1</label></dt>
> <dd><input /></dd>
> [...]
> </dl>
> * Required
> </fieldset>
> <input type="hidden" />
> <input type="submit" />
> </form>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> I've managed to get this...
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> <form>
> <fieldset>
> <legend>My Form</legend>
> <dl>
> <dt><label>Element 1</label></dt>
> <dd><input /></dd>
> [...]
> </dl>
> </fieldset>
> </form>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> What I'm missing is how to add the "hidden" and "submit" button outside of
> the "fieldset"
Regarding hidden elements, there has been a feature request for this for
some time. The unfortunate fact, though, is that it's relatively
difficult to implement. I'm hoping to get to it for 1.7.0.
> (though, now that I think about it, should I be using a
> 'Display Group' to group the "dl" and "span" elements? Maybe I'm
> approaching this thing all wrong and not considering doing things I
> could/should be doing?).
Yes, a display group is the way to go here; simply add all your
non-hidden, non-submit elements to the display group, and you'll be set.
> I'm also missing how to add simple HTML to a field, such as appending a "*
> Required" element after the "dl" list.
You can do that by passing some attributes to the Label decorator; in
your case, you want to set the requiredSuffix attribute:
$element->getDecorator('label')->setOption('requiredSuffix', '* Required');
You can also pass it in at creation:
$element->setDecorators(array(
'ViewHelper',
'Errors',
array('HtmlTag', array('tag' => 'dd')),
array('Label', array('tag' => 'dt', 'requiredSuffix' => '* Required')),
));
and, of course, using a configuration file, if desired.
> Any suggestions? I'm going to play around with "Display Group". For
> whatever reason, I wasn't thinking about using that in a SubForm.
Considering your structure, a display group is sufficient.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
