Use of Zend Form

intro

In this article, Zend Form component is used reffering to Official ZF QuickStart.You can download the source code of this article from here.

1.Create Controller

Create the file application/constorllers/IndexController.php with the following content.

<?php
/** @see Zend_Controller_Action */
require_once 'Zend/Controller/Action.php';

class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{

    /**  
     * This function returns the form used for  
     * adding comments in blog application  
     */  
    public static function getAddCommentForm()   
    {   
        require_once 'Zend/Form.php';   
        $form = new Zend_Form(array(   
            'method'   => 'post',   
            'elements' => array(   
                'comments' => array('textarea', array(   
                    'required' => true,   
                    'label' => 'Write your comments'  
                )),   
                'submit' => array('submit', array(   
                    'label' => 'Send'  
                ))   
            ),   
        ));   
      
        return $form;   
    }  

    public function indexAction()   
    {   
        $form = $this->getAddCommentForm();   
      
        if ($this->getRequest()->isPost()) {    
            if ($form->isValid($_POST)) {    
                $values = $form->getValues();    
                $this->view->values = $values;   
            }    
        }    
        
        $this->view->form = $form;   
    }  
}

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<?php

/** @see Zend_Controller_Action */

require_once 'Zend/Controller/Action.php';

class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action

{

/**

* This function returns the form used for

* adding comments in blog application

*/

public static function getAddCommentForm()

{

require_once 'Zend/Form.php';

$form = new Zend_Form(array(

'method' => 'post',

'elements' => array(

'comments' => array('textarea', array(

'required' => true,

'label' => 'Write your comments'

)),

'submit' => array('submit', array(

'label' => 'Send'

))

),

));

return $form;

}

public function indexAction()

{

$form = $this->getAddCommentForm();

if ($this->getRequest()->isPost()) {

if ($form->isValid($_POST)) {

$values = $form->getValues();

$this->view->values = $values;

}

$this->view->form = $form;

}

2.Create View

Create the file application/views/scripts/index/index.phtml as following content.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Zend Framework Quick Start</title>
  </head>
  <body>
  <h1 id="5_basic-blog_1" >Basic Blog</h1>
    <?php if($this->values) : ?>
    <h3 id="5_you-just-submitted-t_1" >You just submitted the following values:
    </h3>
    <ul>
      <?php foreach ($this->values as $value) :?>
      <li>
        <?= $this->escape($value); ?>
      </li>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
    </ul>
    <?php endif; ?>
    <?= $this->form; ?>
  </body>
</html>

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<head>

<title>Zend Framework Quick Start</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1 id="5_basic-blog_1" >Basic Blog</h1>

<?php if($this->values) : ?>

<h3 id="5_you-just-submitted-t_1" >You just submitted the following values:

</h3>

<ul>

<?php foreach ($this->values as $value) :?>

<li>

<?= $this->escape($value); ?>

</li>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</ul>

<?php endif; ?>

<?= $this->form; ?>

</body>

</html>

3.Check

Let’s access your web server(ex.http://localhost/).

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