Hi Robert,
I'm not sure how this relates to Zend Framework; it seems more appropriate
for the VDaemon forum. Maybe I'm missing something?
My thoughts: I've never been a fan of Smarty (especially after working
with it regularly...) and Zend_Form is awesome. Does that help? ;-)
-Matt
On Wed, May 7, 2008 11:58 am, Robert Gormley wrote:
> This may be a simple question, or it may not.
>
> We are using Zend Framework with Smarty as the front end to a DBMS. One of
> the requirements is the dynamic generation of forms (at the back, I do a
> query of the DB server to get table structures and data integrity rules,
> etc), and in the Model in ZF, I dynamically build a form with all the
> elements as required. This form is then assigned into a Smarty variable,
> and rendered via the usual display .tpl method.
> We want to use VDaemon (joint server/client side form validation library)
> - and whilst it should work with "vanilla" smarty, a la
> http://forum.x-code.com/viewtopic.php?t=39, I'm not sure how to do this
> via Smarty, in that I want to be sure that if I put the VDaemon style tags
> into the tpl as described above (by variable "substitution"
> {$formsubstance}, is that the blob that's returned back to the browser, or
> am I missing something fundamental? One hiccup that comes to mind isn't a
> Smarty issue per se, but relates to (as you can see from the sample code)
> how that will be handled in a View.
>
> I appreciate that this is an esoteric request. It may well be that the
> advice is "Go To ZendForm, ZendLayout" and if that really is for the best,
> so be it (though Zend Form is far more palatable, as we've already got a
> substantial, and working, investment in Smarty, re Layout).
>
> Robert
