I think you need to add this to your form: $form->setIsArray(true);
If you then access (that's what I do) the form values in a controller like that:
$this->getRequest()->getPost('arr')
...you should get the expected array.
Just take care that you have to set the form name to match the
expected array name. I use the constructor for that:
$form = new Zend_Form(array ('name' =>'arr'));
Jules Piccotti
2009/10/22 Krzysztof Szatanik <[email protected]>:
> Hi
>
> I have some issues with Zend_Form and getting values as arrays.
>
> For example - i have 2 elements - e1 and e2 and i want them as array
> (arr):
> Something like this:
>
> [arr] => Array
> (
> [e1] => val1
> [e2] => val2
> )
>
>
> Closest form design i can get is this code:
>
> $form = new Zend_Form();
> $form->addElement( 'text', 'e1', array(
> 'belongsTo' => 'arr',
> 'label' => 'e1',
> ));
> $form->addElement( 'text', 'e2', array(
> 'belongsTo' => 'arr',
> 'label' => 'e2',
> ));
> $form->addElement( 'submit', 'submit', array());
> $form->setDefaults($this->getRequest()->getParams());
> echo '<pre>Form values: '; print_r( $form->getValues() ); echo
> '</pre>';
> echo '<pre>Request params: '; print_r(
> $this->getRequest()->getParams() ); echo '</pre>';
> echo $form;
>
> But, there is still huge problem: Sample output:
>
> Form values: Array
> (
> [e1] => [e2] => [submit] => submit
> )
>
> Request params: Array
> (
> [controller] => test
> [action] => index
> [module] => default
> [arr] => Array
> (
> [e1] => val1
> [e2] => val2
> )
>
> [submit] => submit
> )
>
> As you can see even if i get form values in request as i wanted, they aren't
> recognized by Zend_Form. Output of $form->getValues() is different from
> expected, and even fields aren't recognized, so i can use Zend_Form only to
> generate HTML form but not to filter and validate submited form.
>
> I tried in many ways using different combination of isArray, belongsTo, name
> and nothing works...
>
> Any solutions to this problem that i can still use Zend_Form booth to
> generate form and then to filter/validate submitted data?
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> KS
>
