Works like a charm Mon. Thanks again. I'm not sure though what you mean by echoing the whole form. If you mean echo each individual element with $form->element->someElement->renderViewHelper() then yes.
Anyway, the decorators are starting to make sense more and more now. The decorator hierarchy, as I've read, does make a difference, as they wrap around the former. I had some notion of the decorator pattern, but couldn't get my head around it (no pun intended) too well at first. But this illustrates the workings of a decorator pattern quite vivid. I guess the Form decorator got overwritten by the ViewScript decorator when I had it the other way around. Which makes perfect sense. It would be silly to have ViewScript wrap around the Form decorator. If that is even possible at all. Cheers Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:55:59 +0800 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [fw-general] Zend_Form: MultiCheckbox or Checkbox i.c.w. ViewScript and looping through individual elements I see that you're echoing the whole form. There's no need for renderForm() in that case. Just put the Form decorator after ViewScript. The output of the ViewScript will be wrapped by <form> that way. -- Mon On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 12:33 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: I gues I was a bit hasty about point 2. <?= $form->renderForm( false ); ?> produces two form elements, one fully closed and one with only the starting tag: <form enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" accept-charset="utf-8" class="offer" action="" method="post"></form> <form enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" accept-charset="utf-8" class="offer" action="" method="post"> <dl> <dt> ... etc This is the code in my extended form: $this->setName( $this->_name ) ->setMethod( 'post' ) ->setAttribs( array( 'accept-charset' => 'utf-8', 'class' => 'offer' ) ) ->setDecorators( array( 'Form', 'PrepareElements', array( 'ViewScript', array( 'viewScript' => 'offer/partials/form.phtml' ) ) ) ); Then from within my ViewScript: <? $form = $this->element; ?> <?= $form->renderForm( false ) . PHP_EOL; ?> <dl> <dt> ... etc Any ideas of what might be going on here? Cheers From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:10:53 +0000 Subject: FW: [fw-general] Zend_Form: MultiCheckbox or Checkbox i.c.w. ViewScript and looping through individual elements Sorry guys, forgot to send to [email protected]. So here you go: From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [fw-general] Zend_Form: MultiCheckbox or Checkbox i.c.w. ViewScript and looping through individual elements Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:58:00 +0000 Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:26:25 +0800 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [fw-general] Zend_Form: MultiCheckbox or Checkbox i.c.w. ViewScript and looping through individual elements 1. My suggestion is to take the string output of $multiCheckbox->renderViewHelper(), explode it using the separator, then loop through each line. e.g. $form->addElement('multiCheckbox', 'foo', array( 'multiOptions' => $options, 'separator' => '__SEPARATOR__' ));// view script $output = $this->element->renderViewHelper();$lines = explode('__SEPARATOR__', $output); $c = 0; foreach ($lines as $line) { echo $line . (++$c % 3 == 0 ? '<br />' : ''); }Just make sure that you use a unique separator that won't cause the string to split incorrectly. 2. If it's for rendering the form tag, <?php echo $form->renderForm(false) ?> would output the opening <form> tag complete with the form attributes. -- Mon Hi Mon, 1) Good suggestion, seems like this is the way to go, yes. Thanks. 2) Yes! I was looking for something like that. But couldn't find it in de apidoc nor in the Zend_Form class itself. Now I realize it is a decorator being called through the magic __call() method. So I tried it just now, but couldn't get it to work at first, but now I realize this was due to the fact that I had overwritten the standard decorators with: $this->setDecorators( array( 'PrepareElements', array( 'ViewScript', array( 'viewScript' => 'offer/partials/form.phtml' ) ); Now that I added 'Form' as the first element in the argument array all works fine. Once again thank you for your valuable input. Zend Frameworks community is ace! :-) Cheers On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:19 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: Hi y'all, I'm using a ViewScript decorator for my Zend_Form. In this form I'ld like each third checkbox in a collection of checkboxes to start on a newline, or in a new block element or something similar. I tried it with a MultiCheckbox. I wish I could do something similar as beneath in my forms ViewScript: <? $c = 1; foreach( $this->element->myMultiCheckbox as $checkbox ) { $separator = $c % 2 == 0 ? '<br>' : ''; echo $checkbox->renderViewHelper() . $separator; $c++; } ?> But sadly this doesn't seem possible. My next option I think would be to use seperate Checkbox elements with the multiple [] indicator in their names. But I have no idea how I would be able to loop through them in my ViewScript either. Do you perhaps have any hints on how I could achieve this? Also, with the Zend_Form ViewScript decorator, I thought I would be able to access the form object with something like $this->form from within the view. But I'm not able to access it. How would I be able to access for instance Zend_Form::getMethod(), Zend_Form::getEncType() and other (userland) attributes from within the ViewScript? Thank you for your pointers. Plan je feest, nodig mensen uit en deel je foto's met Windows Live Events Deel en publiceer je favoriete foto's met Windows Live Photos Ook nieuwsgierig naar de nieuwe Messenger? Download 'm hier Twee keer zo leuk. 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