I’m also working on a form where the user can add new crew members to the form via Ajax and i would be interested on hearing how to sort this thing out, if you or someone get this solved. I haven’t started this bit yet, but it will be coming in a couple of weeks time.

I got a multiselect populated ok (which is an array type), but unfortunately did’t get populated text fields with name attributes like director[] distributor[]. The elements have been stated in my form with ‘isArray’ => true.

Been thinking of bypassing the problem by using the multiselects and modifying the UI with Javascript to get the desired look and feel, if no solution is found.

Thanks for dropping by! Check out my latest post for an answer to your question about conditional validation. I figured it would be easier to post about it than try to include it all here.

Hopefully the post helps more than it hurts

JK

http://www.eatmybusiness.com/code_downloads/zend_form_Quick_Form_of_Server_Vars.txt

Re: Do you have any Zend_Form tips or tricks that you’d like to share?

I have only been using Zend Form for a couple of days – so forgive me if this is a dud tip. I found it useful anyway.
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The Tip:

When developing, sometimes i just want to play around with my control code and toggle field names, control actions etc.

I just wanted to quickly pass all the variables around from page to page while i experiment.
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A Quick way of generating a form that simply renders the SERVER Request Variables.

Create a subclass of Zend_Form interface like:

//set up the form
$form_obj = new my_Form_SimpleREQUEST_VARSmimic();
//set up the variables
$form_obj->setupREQUESTVarsAsFields();
//render
$form_obj->render();

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I will post the code example in a separate comment in case its too long to include here.

I was having the “Choose” option problem and thats a neat solution.

A question:
I need to do different validations for field A depending on the value of field B and (possibly depending on a variable that is not in the form at all – C ).

in this kind of logic:

if (B ==1)
{
validator_B(A);
}
elseif (C)
{
validator_C(A);
}
else
{
validator_Default(A);
}

I understand that validators get a secondary argument called $context – which can be used to check values of other fields, but how can a validator get knowledge of other variables in the environment.

Perhaps this stinks of decoupling gone off – so i may be barking up the wrong tree.

The callback validator looks promising.

I’m not sure if Zend_Form should even be used for these kind of tasks.

Any tips?

Thanks for dropping by! I’m about to start working on the same thing myself. I’ll write it up when I get it worked out. If you get it worked out before you see a write-up here, drop me a line.

I have a couple of apps where I can dynamically add new text or select inputs to the form. These element names have [] so they come into the app as an array. I have been trying to figure out how to get Zend_Form to work with this sort of situation. I was not able to figure out how to make Zend_Form correctly output my initial form elements (coming out of the database). I was also not able to figure out how to make it validate numerous selects and text elements and use “something[]” as the elements’ names.

I don’t know if I’ve explained the situation well enough, but if I have, any ideas?