Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Zend_Forms, models, validation and how they all work together is a tricky topic. There are many opinions and many ways to do it.
This time I'll show you what I think could be the answer to validating forms without having to duplicate validation code both in a model class and ...
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
How to use FCKeditor, or any other WYSIWYG editor, with Zend_Form? Another relatively common question.
There are many ways you can do this, but let's look at these two as they are the best in my opinion:
Adding some JavaScript to your view script
Creating a Zend_Form_Decorator
We'll be using FCKeditor, but you can ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
A relatively common task when working with forms is filling select boxes or checkbox and radiobutton lists from a database.
It's not very tricky to query a database, and fill a Zend_Form element's possible values from the resultset, but it can be quite boring and extraneous code...
We could also create an ...
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