-- devxtech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Friday, 26 September 2008, 01:43 PM -0700):
>
> After looking through the mailing list archives and trying a lot of different
> things I can't seem to find out why the form elements won't display from my
> viewscript. They display fine when i don't use a viewscript and use the
> default decorators.
Make sure that you call setView() on the elements. Easiest would be to
do the following at the top of your view script:
foreach ($this->element as $item) {
$item->setView($this);
}
> My viewscript (/application/views/scripts/contactForm.phtml) looks like
> this:
>
> <h4>Please Fill Me Out</h4>
> <form action="<? $this->escape($this->element->getAction()); ?>" method="<?
> $this->escape($this->element->getMethod());?>">
> <fieldset>
> <legend>Contact Information</legend>
> <p>Please provide us with the following information so we may contact
> you.</p>
> <? $this->element->firstName; ?>
> <? $this->element->lastName; ?>
> <? $this->element->email; ?>
> <? $this->element->telephoneNum; ?>
> </fieldset>
> <fieldset>
> <legend>Contact Reason & Message</legend>
> <p>Now please provide us with your reason for contacting us and a brief
> message.</p>
> <? $this->element->contactReason; ?>
> <? $this->element->message; ?>
> </fieldset>
> <? $this->element->submit; ?>
> </form>
>
> My class in (/application/forms/ContactForm.php) is as follows:
>
> class forms_ContactForm extends Zend_Form {
> public function __construct($options = null)
> {
> parent::__construct($options);
> $this->setAction('');
> $this->setMethod('post');
> $this->setName('contact_us');
>
> $firstName = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('firstName');
> $firstName->setLabel('First Name')
> ->setRequired(true)
> ->addValidator('NotEmpty', true)
> ->addValidator('Alpha', true);
>
> $lastName = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('lastName');
> $lastName->setLabel('Last Name')
> ->setRequired(true)
> ->addValidator('NotEmpty')
> ->addValidator('Alpha', true);
>
> $telephoneNum = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('telephoneNum');
> $telephoneNum->setLabel('Telephone Number')
> //->setDescription('example
> (555)555-5555')
> ->setRequired(false)
> ->addValidator('NonEmpty');
>
> $email = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('email');
> $email->setLabel('Email Address')
> ->addFilter('StripTags')
> ->addFilter('StringTrim')
> ->addFilter('StringToLower')
> ->setRequired(true)
> ->addValidator('NotEmpty', true)
> ->addValidator('EmailAddress');
>
> $contactReason = new Zend_Form_Element_Select('contactReason');
> $contactReason->setLabel('Reason for Contact')
> ->setRequired(true)
> ->addMultiOption('none','Please
> Select One')
>
> ->addMultiOption('personal','Personal')
>
> ->addMultiOption('business','Business')
> ->addValidator('NotEmpty');
>
> $message = new Zend_Form_Element_Textarea('message');
> $message->setLabel('Comments')
> ->setAttrib('rows','15')
> ->setAttrib('cols','70')
> ->setRequired(true)
> ->addValidator('NotEmpty');
>
> $submit = new Zend_Form_Element_Submit('submit');
> $submit->setLabel('Submit Form');
>
> $this->setDecorators(array(
> array('ViewScript',array('viewScript' =>
> 'forms/contactForm.phtml'))
> ));
>
> $this->addElements(array($firstName, $lastName, $email,
> $telephoneNum,
> $contactReason, $message, $submit));
> }
> }
> ?>
>
>
> When the script runs it outputs the fieldsets and the legends with the
> descriptions but nothing else is outputted. Any ideas on what could be
> causing this. Been trying to figure this out for a few days now and could
> really use some help as I'm still learning OOP and the Zend Framework.
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>
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
