Simon, see http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-9788
Greetings, Christian
> alab wrote:
> > Simon,
> > would you give a tiny example to reproduce this and if it is
> > reproduceable, i
> > will fix it asap.
> > Greetings, Christian
>
> The below is a sub form being added inside my form class as I believe is
> recommended practice. All it's doing is retrieving some items as an array.
> Creating a quantity form, setting it to an array and naming it.
>
> Then I loop through the items and add a text box to hold the quantity for
> each element. The name being the id of the item in the database (so could
> be any number in any order as they are not always sequential). I type the
> id it as a string (although I believe from the docs this is no longer
> required).
>
> I have not pasted the parts about setting form action, submit buttons etc.
>
>
> class Purchasing_Form_Item_Management extends Zend_Form
> {
>
> public function init()
> {
> $items = $this->_getItems(); // Simply gets a multidimensional array from
> somewhere!
>
> $quantityForm = new Zend_SubForm();
> $quantityForm->setIsArray(true);
> $quantityForm->setName('quantity');
>
> // Loop through the orders
> foreach ($items AS $item) {
>
> // Add the quantity element
> $quantityForm->addElement('text', (string) $item->id,
> array( 'filters' => array('Float'),
> 'value' => $item['quantity'],
> //'belongsto' => 'quantity', // - Makes no difference
> whether it's on or off, as expected
> ));
>
> }
>
> $this->addSubForm($quantityForm, 'quantity');
> }
> }
>
>
> When checking the data it is as follows (this example is inside a
> controller action for simplicity).
>
>
> $data = $this->_request->getPost();
>
> // Retrieve the form for validation
> $form = new Purchasing_Form_Item_Management();
>
> if (!$form->isValid($data)) {
> return false;
> }
> unset($data);
>
> // Retrieve the values from the form
> $values = $form->getValues();
>
>
> $values will then be structured as so:
>
> $values['quantity][0] = 10
> $values['quantity][1] = 20
> $values['quantity][2] = 30
>
>
> If however you do away with the sub form and use the belongs to property of
> the form element it works as expected and the array remains with the
> correct index. This is fine however I need to use sub forms as I will also
> have other fields I need indexed by the key id.
>
> The code has been copied and pasted slightly restructured so any coding
> errors are typing mistakes here as the code runs fine and works in 1.10.2.
> Any obvious missing flags, or missing steps that are now required by array
> notation forms are probably my fault!!
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Simon
