Zend_Form

Zend_Form simplifies form creation and handling in your web application. It performs the following tasks:

• Element input filtering and validation
• Element ordering
• Element and Form rendering, including escaping
• Element and form grouping
• Element and form-level configuration

Zend_Form makes use of several Zend Framework components to accomplish its goals, including Zend_Config, Zend_Validate,Zend_Filter, Zend_Loader_PluginLoader, and optionally Zend_View.

Creating new controller

go to your project in command prompt and type;

zf create controller {controller name}

in my case I will type as;

zf create controller form

a new controller namely formController.php in the project controller directory and with that a new view folder form with index.phtml is also added to the project by zend.

Now we will go to our view file form/index.phtml and create our form. type the following to create form;

<?php 

$form = new Zend_Form;

$form->setAction('/index/index')

->setMethod('post');

$firstName = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('firstName');

        $firstName->setLabel('First name')

                  ->setRequired(true)

                  ->addValidator('NotEmpty');

        $lastName = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('lastName');

        $lastName->setLabel('Last name')

                 ->setRequired(true)

                 ->addValidator('NotEmpty');

             

        $email = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('email');

        $email->setLabel('Email address')

              ->addFilter('StringToLower')

              ->setRequired(true)

              ->addValidator('NotEmpty', true)

              ->addValidator('EmailAddress'); 

              

        

        $submit = new Zend_Form_Element_Submit('submit');

        $submit->setLabel('Contact us');

        

        $form->addElements(array($firstName, 

            $lastName, $email, $submit));

       

         echo $form;

        

now go to you site Url and check