How to render some html in Zend form? - zend-framework

Question

In my form i need this:
<li class ="af_title"><div>Contact form</div></li>
I understand that if I need for example a text field - then I'd just create Zend_Form_Element_Text and wrap HtmlTag decorator around it - right?
questions:
1) how would I generate div form element so I can wrap decorator around it?
2) mmm. - how would I set content of said element to be "Contact form"?
Thanks:)

Answer 1

To wrap your Contact form around div which is inside <li class ="af_title"> you can do as follows:
$yourForm = new YourForm();
$yourForm->addDecorator(array('div' => 'HtmlTag'), array('tag' => 'div'));
$yourForm->addDecorator(array('li' => 'HtmlTag'), array('tag' => 'li', 'class' => 'af_title'));
EDIT:
I see that you speak of div form element. Such element does not exist, but you could easily create it. For this you need two things: new form element (i.e. div element) and a form view helper that would take care of generation of the html. I allowed myself to prepare simple examples of these two elements to show what I mean:
Div.php in APPLICATION_PATH . /forms/Element:
class My_Form_Element_Div extends Zend_Form_Element {
/**
* Default form view helper to use for rendering
* #var string
*/
public $helper = 'formDiv';
public function __construct($spec, $options = null) {
parent::__construct($spec, $options);
$this->removeDecorator('label');
$this->removeDecorator('htmlTag');
}
}
FormDiv.php in APPLICATION_PATH . /views/helpers:
class My_View_Helper_FormDiv extends Zend_View_Helper_FormElement {
public function formDiv($name, $value = null, $attribs = null) {
$class = '';
if (isset($attribs['class'])) {
$class = 'class = "'. $attribs['class'] .'"';
}
return "<li $class><div>$value</div></li>";
}
}
Having this, you can just add the div form element to any form element in their init() method as follows:
$div = new My_Form_Element_Div('mydiv');
$div->setValue('Contact form')->setAttrib('class', 'af_title');
$this->addElement($div);