On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Konr Ness <[email protected]> wrote:
> David,
>
> That's exactly how I do it. If my form needs an instance of the model I *
> always* have a setter for the model (instead of requiring the form to
> create it's own instance).
>
> I do this a lot for forms like user registration which needs to have a
> unique email address validator (which obviously needs access to the model to
> check the DB). [...]
>
Thanks. Just curious: do you call your setter every time, or have you
devised away to hand your model instance to your form's constructor? Because
I would like that database connection to be available to init(), which is
called by the constructor.
If you say new My_Form(array('model' => $model')) I imagine that would work
but it would constrain your constructor to using arrays and not Zend_Config.
Then again, do we care?
I guess another alternative is to add an optional second argument $model to
your subclass' constructor.
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