ZC49 – Writing Composite Zend_Form Elements

Jon Lebensold · 2010-03-11 04:14:21

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.

zaherg · 2010-04-12 12:15:38

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

Jon Lebensold · 2010-04-12 15:55:31

Hi Zeherg,

thanks for mentioning this!

zaherg · 2010-04-12 17:25:07

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.

zaherg · 2010-05-11 12:38:19

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

Oliver · 2010-06-18 06:26:46

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

Jon Lebensold · 2010-06-18 15:57:57

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

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