Zendcasts Forum / ZC49 – Writing Composite Zend_Form Elements

Re: ZC49 – Writing Composite Zend_Form Elements

dummy@example.com (Jon Lebensold) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:57:57 +0000

Hi Oliver, very good point! I missed that when I put together that helper.

Re: ZC49 – Writing Composite Zend_Form Elements

dummy@example.com (Oliver) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:26:46 +0000

Hi Jon,

it looks like, the helper is only instantiated once. So if you use $this->html, to store the generated html-code, and append new html-code, every time a new element is added to the form, the new html-code will be appended to the previous. That is, what zaherg worte a few days before.

And btw: thank you, Jon, for your great zend tutorials!

Oliver

Re: ZC49 – Writing Composite Zend_Form Elements

dummy@example.com (zaherg) — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:38:19 +0000

hi :
i just want to put a note that you have not to use

$this->html

in your code instead you will have to use the

$html

.
other wise if you have 2 elements it will be rendered as 3 elements since that

$this->html

will not be reset for the next element ..

check my code since i have just made the changes ..
http://pastie.org/915510

regards

Re: ZC49 – Writing Composite Zend_Form Elements

dummy@example.com (zaherg) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:25:07 +0000

your most welcome ..
i hope that you can make a cast about how to create a composite form element other than text since its ( text elements ) already mentioned in other places.

Re: ZC49 – Writing Composite Zend_Form Elements

dummy@example.com (Jon Lebensold) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:55:31 +0000

Hi Zeherg,

thanks for mentioning this!

Re: ZC49 – Writing Composite Zend_Form Elements

dummy@example.com (zaherg) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:15:38 +0000

Hi:
here is my code and how i made a composite form element for the Date Of Birth

http://pastie.org/915510

the code my not be as good as you might think , but we are all learning something new everyday

thanks

ZC49 – Writing Composite Zend_Form Elements

dummy@example.com (Jon Lebensold) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:14:21 +0000

This video should help you build your own composite Zend_Form element. We'll be building a phone element. The phone element will have 3 textboxes, one for geographic location, area code and local code. In the following videos will add a custom cell phone validator and some ajax validation.

Grab a copy of the project or browse the repository.