Zend Form – custom decorators
So I’m learning PHP and Zend Framework and MVC stuff. And I just figured out how to do a custom decorator on Zend_Form to change the way the form is written to HTML. The default puts each element label and input box into dd and dl tags. I just wanted to put each element in a div, with the input box on the same line as the label. There may be better ways to do this, but this is what I put in the IndexController.php file:
$form = new Zend_Form(array( 'elementDecorators'=>array( 'ViewHelper', array( 'Description', array( 'tag'=>'div', 'class'=>'help' ) ), 'Errors', array('Label'), array( 'HtmlTag', array( 'tag'=>'div', 'class'=>'field' ) ) ), 'decorators'=>array( 'FormElements', array( 'HtmlTag', array('tag' => '<div>') ), 'Form', ), 'method' => 'post', 'action' =>'/url/to/form', 'elements' => array( 'name' => array('text', array( 'label' => 'Name:' )), 'subject' => array('text', array( 'label' => 'Subject:' )), 'submit' => array('submit', array( 'label' => 'Add', )) ), )); $form->submit->removeDecorator('Label'); return $form; } public function formAction() { $this->view->form = $form; }
The $form->submit->removeDecorator(‘Label’) bit removes the extra ‘Add’ from the submit button.
Then you just put
echo $this->form;
in your form.phtml
(This form does nothing)
This results in HTML like:
<form method="post" action="/route/to/form">
<div>
<div class="field">
<label for="name" class="optional">Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" value="">
</div>
<div class="field">
<label for="subject" class="optional">Subject:</label>
<input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" value="">
</div>
<div class="field">
<input name="submit" id="submit" value="Add" type="submit">
</div>
</div>
</form>
Instead of the default dd and dl layed out form.
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May 13, 20085:08 pm
Hey Beth, ha. You stole my design!!! 
lol just kidding, ironically enough I am writting about the same stuff. Instead of divs i do ul/lis check it out, i’d love your feedback!
May 14, 200812:46 pm
Did I? I got a bit of the above from somewhere but I lost where it was, and had changed it a quite bit anyway. I’ll check yours out if you tell me where it is!
May 15, 200812:51 am
haha, i was talking about the blog theme! we picked the same ones. http://joshteam.wordpress.com is my blog. How long have you been doing php, and more importantly.. zend framework?
May 15, 20089:02 am
Ah right ha. Yeah you have almost all the same widgets too. I’ve been doing PHP for about a month and zend framework for about 3 weeks! Never done ANY programming before so it’s a bit hard for me, particularly cos we’re doing it MVC style. (Not counting HTML and CSS as programming!). What about you?
May 25, 20082:37 pm
I just got back from vacation *hence my absence* but I’ve been doing web deving since I was oh, 13? Programming for the past 5 years, mainly php. ZF for about 7-8mo. It’s actually going to save you a TON of headaches by getting you feet wet with OO & MVC. It may seem challenging to pick up on it being green and all, but if you were to become a procedural pro the jump would even be harder.
The one area that I am new to is blogging hah. So what company do you work for up in NYC?
May 26, 20082:31 pm
NYC? What makes you think I am there? I wish! I am working for the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK.
Jul 15, 200812:58 pm
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Jan 4, 20098:52 pm
Lovely little tutorial, Beth! This is really a confusing thing to work with, I’ve found. I was having a bit of a tough time figuring out how to wrap both the label and input in a tag.
May 2, 20097:07 pm
Hi,
Nice tutorial!! I’ve tried sticking with Zend’s default dt/dd tags for a ‘Date of Birth’ select tag group (Month-Day-Year). What I’m trying to create is like this:
DOB:
Jan
Feb
01
02
1994
1993
The closest solution that I got is the reverse of it:
Jan
Feb
01
02
1994
1993
DOB:
by adding a select element like this (month only):
$this->addElement(‘select’, ‘birthday_month’,
array(
‘multioptions’ => $this->_createMonths(),
‘disableLoadDefaultDecorators’ => true,
‘decorators’ => $this->_standardElementDecorator
)
);
and grouping the select elements (month day year) using this display group:
$this->addDisplayGroup(
array(‘birthday_month’, ‘birthday_day’, ‘birthday_year’),
‘birthdate_data’,
array(
‘description’ => ‘DOB:’,
‘disableLoadDefaultDecorators’ => true,
‘decorators’ => $this->_standardGroupDecorator
)
);
using these decorator for the select elements:
protected $_standardElementDecorator = array(
‘ViewHelper’
);
and this decorator for the group (month day year):
protected $_standardGroupDecorator = array(
‘FormElements’,
array(‘Description’, array(‘escape’ => false, ‘tag’ => false)),
array(‘HtmlTag’, array(‘tag’ => ‘dd’)),
);
I know it’s a mouthful for a post hehehe. If I change the order in the group decorator:
protected $_standardGroupDecorator = array(
array(‘Description’, array(‘escape’ => false, ‘tag’ => false)),
‘FormElements’,
array(‘HtmlTag’, array(‘tag’ => ‘dd’)),
);
Alignment gets broken. Please help. I’m very close.
Cliburn M. Solano
Pinoy ako
May 2, 20097:13 pm
oww…. tags we’re no escaped. Nweiz, it should look like this:
DOB:
Month Day Year
not:
Month Day Year
DOB:
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2:45 pm
Nice work, Beth! If you want to learn even more about form decorators, keep an eye on http://devzone.zend.com/ this week — I have a tutorial on them posting later in the week.