Comments on: Zend Framework multi page forms

By: Antonio

Antonio — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:31:04 +0000

Thanks Nathan, will look into it.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:29:59 +0000

nvm my question, got it to work with dojo, but had to enable the forms in the init function using: // Dojo-enable the form:
Zend_Dojo::enableForm($this);
otherwise it would not work!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:17:57 +0000

Hi Antonio,

That tutorial was written years ago and is probably out of date. I haven’t used Zend_Forms for a long time now since it is, to be honest, a bit annoying. Symfony suffers from the same problem with their forms framework. I’d hope both support multi page forms properly now anyway.

It’s worth looking at http://minacl.org/ for a much better, and easier, forms solution. I’ve been using it recently, and it’s just so much easier to use than anything else out there.

All the best,

Nathan

By: Antonio

Antonio — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:57:26 +0000

Thank you for the tutorial.
This works fine with Zend_Form, but for some odd reason it wont go to the second form when initialized the forms as Zend_Dojo_Form, any ideas?

By: Restaurant Webdesign

Restaurant Webdesign — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:07:28 +0000

I discovered that I had just made a silly mistake!
I copied the code from the first sub form page but didn’t rename the element in the second subform.
As soon as I changed the element in the second subform to $engineSelect2 the form worked as expected.

By: Restaurant Webdesign

Restaurant Webdesign — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:00:50 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. Unfortunately I can’t get it to work either. The first page of the form is shown but when I click the next button it goes straight to the ‘finish’ page.

By: jack

jack — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:18:07 +0000

i can’t get this work somehow.. i got everything the same, what am i missing? patrick can u upload a zip version or something?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:11:01 +0000

Your code seem to work, but I cannot get the second form to display. The master form is always valid, so it doesn’t show the second page. Also, I would like to include the “back” button on the second and the finish (preview) form and when users press on the “back” button the previous form will re-display with entered data.

Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thks

By: Mirko

Mirko — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:38:24 +0000

The answer is $picture->setValueDisabled(true) and after validation just check:
$adapter=new Zend_File_Transfer_Adapter_Http();
$adapter->setDestination(‘pictures’);
if ($adapter->receive()) {
echo ’success’;
}
It takes me almost whole day

By: Mirko

Mirko — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:28:52 +0000

It works very good except one situation, I can`t figure out how to use it with Zend_File? This condition “if ($this->getForm(‘main’)->isValid($this->getFormValues()))” was always return false.

Here is a part of onces of my subform:
$picture=new Zend_Form_Element_File(‘picture’);
$picture->setLabel(‘Chose picture:’)
->setRequired(false)
->setDestination(‘pictures’);

$submit=new Zend_Form_Element_Submit(‘Save’);
$this->addElements(array($picture,$submit));

File is uploaded to right place, but last validation returns false.
I will be really appriciate for replay.