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  • Quicker and cleaner Form using Zend Form

    PHP
    13th February 2008 - By Vinu Thomas

    Usually handing forms involves coding the form in HTML and performing client and server side validation, which usually makes the code for complex forms quite unwieldy. Zend_Form which is available in Zend Framework version 1.5 aims at simplifying this process.

    You can now create and add methods for validating form fields completely in Zend_Form. Here’s an example from an article at Zend Developer Zone:

    $form = new Zend_Form;
$form->setAction('/resource/process')
    ->setMethod('post')
    ->setAttrib('id', 'login');
$username = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('username');
$username->addValidator('alnum')
    ->addValidator('regex', false, array('/^[a-z]/i'))
    ->setRequired(true)
    ->addFilter('StringToLower');
$form->addElement($username);
$password = new Zend_Form_Element_Password('password');
$password->addValidator('stringLength', false, array(6))
    ->setRequired(true)
$form->addElement($password);
$form->addElement(new Zend_Form_Element_Submit());

    To learn more on this head over to the Zend_Form Quick start guide at : http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.form.quickstart.html or an article by Cal Evans at Zend Developer Zone: Lifting the Skirt on Zend Framework 1.5 – Zend_Form

  • 2 Comments to “Quicker and cleaner Form using Zend Form”

    • vinu on February 13, 2008

      A few more advanced form techniques using Zend Framework are available at: http://gourl.in/0j

    • PHPDeveloper.org on February 13, 2008

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