I am trying to create a printable representations of a completed form.
So, instead of a input field, I have added a form element called Note

class SF_Form_Element_Note extends Zend_Form_Element_Xhtml
{

public $helper = ‘formNote’;
}

My problem is that I am trying to place a span tag around the data text

my decorator for this field is as follows:

public function printDecorators ($id)
{

return array(
array(‘ViewHelper’, array(array(‘data’ => ‘HtmlTag’), array(‘tag’ =>’span’)),
array(array(‘data2′ => ‘HtmlTag’), array(‘tag’ =>’span’, ‘id’ => $id))),
array(‘Label’, array(‘tag’ =>’span’)),
array(‘Errors’),
array(‘HtmlTag’)
);

I get

<div>
</div><span id="printtab-first_name-label"><label for="printtab-first_name" class="optional">First Name</label></span>
Jeffery</div>
<div><span id="printtab-last_name-label"><label for="printtab-last_name" class="optional">Last Name</label></span>
Shipman</div>
</div>

what I would like is

<div>
</div><span id="printtab-first_name-label"><label for="printtab-first_name" class="optional">First Name</label></span>
<span id="first">Jeffery</span></div>
<div><span id="printtab-last_name-label"><label for="printtab-last_name" class="optional">Last Name</label></span>
<span id="last">Shipman</span></div>
</div>

I've a question about thr "FormErrors" décorator, so :

        $this->setDecorators(array(
            array('FormErrors', array()),           
            'FormElements',
            array('HtmlTag', array('tag' => 'table', 'class'=> 'table_edit_news')),
            'Form'
        ));

This code generate the html, accordding the ZF website  :

<ul class="form-errors>
  <li><b>[element label or name]</b>
  <ul>
          <li>[error message]</li>
          <li>[error message]</li>
  </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

How can I remove the [element label or name] line : <b>[element label or name]</b>
I  know I can modify "markupElementLabelStart " and "markupElementLabelEnd " but not remove. In fact, I want only the list of errors, in the "FormErrors" decorator.

Any idea ?

Regards,
Fabrice

<label ...
<input...

so when when i decorate, i wrap and wrap and wrap..
but what if i want my labels to be on a row and my elements to be on another row so it will be like

<tr><td><label></label></td><td><label></label></td></tr>
<tr><td><input/></td><td><input/><td></tr>
how is this going to happen? I can't figure it out :S

just include the "FormErrors" decorator!

That's excactly what I tried to do.  'Errors' shouldn't be any different than 'Label'.  So this is what I did:

$this->setElementDecorators(array( 
       ‘ViewHelper ‘,
       array( 'Errors',
              array( 'tag' => 'td', 'placement' => 'APPEND' ),
        array(
            array( ‘data‘ => ‘HtmlTag‘), 
            array( ‘tag‘ => ‘td‘,‘class‘ => ‘element‘ ) 
       ),
       array( ‘Label‘, 
           array( ‘tag‘ => ‘td‘ )
       ),
       array(
            array(‘row‘ => ‘HtmlTag‘), 
            array( ‘tag‘ => ‘tr‘,‘class‘ => ‘row-element‘ )
       ) 
) );

In my head, it should be no different adding a td tag to the errors than to the label.  But my head does not always compute with Zend and in this case, what this does is adding an attribute to the ul element called td.

So where should I manipulate the Error decorator?  I want it to render itself the same ( ul -> li ), but I want it to have an additional td around the ul.

http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFFAQ/Forms

It needs another decorator, following the example shown in zendcast 47 I can not put the two (File and viewhelp) decorators together. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you.

But from now shows another error:

Warning: Exception caught by form: Method getMaxFileSize does not exist

And I stopped here ever since. I tried several configurations:

        $ maxfilesize = new Zend_Form_Element_Hidden ( 'form element');
        $ maxfilesize-> setValue (204800);

   $ photo = new Zend_Form_Element_File ( 'photo');
        $ photo-> setLabel ( 'Photo')
                 -> setValidators (array (
                    array ( 'Count', false, 1),
                    array ( 'Size', false, 204800),
                    array ( 'Extension', false, 'jpg, gif, png'),
                    array ( 'NotEmpty', true)
                ))
               
                / / -> setMaxFileSize (20000)
                -> setRequired (true);

But still without success. Is there opportunity to help with this?
Thank you.
Att

Thanks for this informative video.  I cannot wait to see your video about custom decorators.

I'll show you a bit about how Zend_Form_Decorators are constructed and how to take the default zend_form layout and transform it into a table.

Grab a copy of the project or browse the repository.