Rob Allen (May 19, 2010 at 10:15)
Talk at TEK·X (English - US)
Zend_Form is a powerful component than can simplify form handling within your web application. Find out in this session how to make Zend_Form render and validate your form elements and ease the pain of forms on web pages.
We will look at configuration, data filters & validation and error handling. One particularly tricky area is the use of the decorator pattern to control the generated HTML when rendering the form. This session will therefore also take a detailed look at this especially powerful functionality and show how to ensure that your forms are rendered as desired.
Quicklink: http://joind.in/1591
Slides: Working with Zend_Form
May 19, 2010, 16:17 by joel
Thanks for the discussion. I feel like I finally understand how everything is supposed to work. I'm going to dig into it again.
I also found this post that talks about using Zend_Form outside of MVC: http://www.tibobeijen.nl/blog/2009/12/07/using-zend_form-without-zend-framework-mvc/
May 19, 2010, 16:21 by jfaustin
As always, great job. I found the translation approach to customized error messages interesting and innovative. Never thought of doing it that way before...
May 19, 2010, 16:30 by aelliott1485
good background setup and examples; While it wasn't always clear which classes methods were being invoked upon, it was presumed they were either on objects of type element or form
May 19, 2010, 17:00 by notmessenger
Clear, concise presentation on the basics of Zend_Form. Having struggled with some parts of Zend_Form for awhile (mainly the decorators) it was nice to receive confirmation am doing most things correctly and the few little tips/tricks picked up should be great help. Would love to see a 3-hour tutorial on Zend_Form next time :-)!
May 19, 2010, 17:01 by chance
Thank you for the talk. I finally understand decorators and all it took was one statement with the visuals you used. Knowing that order of how the decorators are set is important was the keystone I was missing from understanding form decorators. I hope that the slides will be available later this year since I understand you have other talks to give this year.
May 19, 2010, 18:20 by Anonymous
Good talk which helped cement my understanding of how all the pieces fit together in a practical way.
May 19, 2010, 22:33 by lornajane
I enjoyed this talk, would have loved more information or maybe a diagram about how the ordering needs to work or what happens when you get that order wrong. I learned a lot especially in the questions section
May 20, 2010, 13:42 by bush
Very interesting, but I was unclear how to get started using Zend_Form until someone asked near the end.
May 20, 2010, 13:59 by Anonymous
Another excellent Rob Allen talk at Tek-X.
I'm looking forward to working with Zend Form.
May 22, 2010, 16:16 by jtrapp07
Zend Form is a somewhat complex concept that has its benefits and downfalls. Rob did a great job at explaining why its benefits out weight the bad.
May 19, 2010, 16:10 by sethmay
Very knowledgeable. Good answers to some complex questions as well. Personally, I think I'll keep to using Zend_Form for my backend setup and validation and continue to handle manual rendering in my views.