-- Mary Nicole Hicks <webmas...@marynicolehicks.com> wrote
(on Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 10:38 PM -0700):
> I am finding the Zend_Form hard to use. Currently all form elements usable in
> a Zend_Form have "order" property that specify an integer. This number is
> used to sort the form elements.
>
> The problem I have is that I have extended the implementation of a form
> several times. In an extending class, I wish to insert an elements in
> between 2 existing elements.
>
> Currently this means that if in the element before has an order number of 5
> and the element after has an order number of 10, the element I want to
> insert needs to have an order number of 7 or so. After extending a few
> times, the order numbers get hard to keep track of. If you have items with
> order numbers of 5 and 6, then you can not seem to place an element in the
> middle.
So, since you know all the elements in your form presumably... why not
simply set the order after all elements are defined?
$this->foo->setOrder(1);
$this->bar->setOrder(2);
$this->baz->setOrder(3);
This allows you to specify the full order in each extending class, which
gives you even more flexibility.
> Does anyone have code, or do people think code could be added to Zend_Form
> to the following:
> - $Zend_Form->InsertAtBeginning(Zend_Form_Element)
> - $Zend_Form->InsertBefore(Zend_Form_Element1,Zend_Form_Element2)
> - $Zend_Form->InsertAfter(Zend_Form_Element1,Zend_Form_Element2)
> - $Zend_Form->InsertAtEnd(Zend_Form_Element)
If you look into the code for Zend_Form, it's complex -- and I think
that instead of adding features like this to the API, it makes more
sense to do this in your own extending classes, or to use the technique
I outline above.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Project Lead | matt...@zend.com
Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
