Comments on: Many to Many with Zend_Form and Zend_Db

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:20:49 +0000

Thank you. Your Video has been helpful a lot Keep up the good work.

By: KOO

KOO — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:25:58 +0000

Hi there, I think it would really be a better idea to use “Zend_Form_Element_Multiselect” to choose multiple tasks rather than checkboxes since multiselect provides an instant array and easier to handle.

Also, to get rid of unwanted form values to be saved, you can set ignore rather than delete it and recreate it after saving. This sounds a little bit inefficient.

There is a convenient function in Zend_Form to populate data from array, so simply follow a good naming convention in both database and Zend_Form would save you much work by using toArray in row class and populate all the data into the form for viewing.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:51:42 +0000

As far as I can tell, the hidden field is there so that you know whether the checkbox was checked or not. In a normal HTML form, a checkbox which hasn’t been checked isn’t included in the POST variables.

Extremely useful screen cast by the way.

Any ideas how you could include the “Associate” form into a “Create User” form? So that you can create a user and add task associations in one form?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:54:54 +0000

Cool casts that that will give me a quick start

Anyway I think Zend is a cool thing, although the generated checkbox code is horrible…:

$this->addElement(new Zend_Form_Element_Checkbox(“test”));

generates

>dt id=”test-label”>
>dd id=”test-element”>
>input type=”hidden” name=”test” value=”0″ />>input type=”checkbox” name=”test” id=”test” value=”1″ />>/dd>>/dl>

the dt/dd are so far ok, but what the hell should this hidden textfield? you normally have w3c compliant the possibility to have more checkboxes with the same name and get a comma separated list after post…
this is impossible with Zend because of this hidden field…

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:50:54 +0000

Cool casts that that will give me a quick start

Anyway I think Zend is a cool thing, although the generated checkbox code is horrible…:

$this->addElement(new Zend_Form_Element_Checkbox(“test”));

generates

By: jon

jon — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:29:07 +0000

hey Derick… probably just convenience

By: Derick

Derick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:13:38 +0000

I noticed you were using $dataRowset[0] to grab the first row in a Zend_Db_Table_Rowset.

Was there a reason you weren’t using ->current() or was it just convenient?

By: jon

jon — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:17:35 +0000

Hi Staar2,

Are you referring to Zend “Modules”?

By: staar2

staar2 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:21:04 +0000

Nice cast, but I am waiting cast for modular setup. I dont get the modular way of working.

By: Marijan

Marijan — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:12:44 +0000

Thanks a lot for all your cast. I really appreciate what you do to make us a lot easier to learn ZF.

I find ZF very useful so I started to learn about it. My next project will be in ZF so every tip I can get is cool, and you gave me good tips .

Thx

By: tawfekov

tawfekov — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:36:01 +0000

Thank you very much about this cast
and for the zipped file

By: Decoder

Decoder — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:30:04 +0000

Thanks so much!
In recent casts is very much useful information.
I wish you success