Zend Framework 2 - Form Element Decorators

Question

I want to force the Zend form into Twitter Bootstrap style. I currently iterate through the form fields and write the form info into my bootstrap div construction.

I saw in Zend Framework 1(!) that there is a way to do this within a decorator. But for some reason the doc for version 2 doesn't cover this point...

I'd like to do something like this:

protected $_format = '<label for="%s">%s</label>'
             . '<input id="%s" name="%s" type="text" value="%s"/>';

public function render($content)
{
    $element = $this->getElement();
    $name    = htmlentities($element->getFullyQualifiedName());
    $label   = htmlentities($element->getLabel());
    $id      = htmlentities($element->getId());
    $value   = htmlentities($element->getValue());

    $markup  = sprintf($this->_format, $name, $label, $id, $name, $value);
    return $markup;
}

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I'm using partials now. I'm iterating over the attributes, build a few exceptions for eg CSRF and Submit... This works pretty smooth:

View

echo $this->partial('partial/form-partial', array(
'form' => $this->form,
'url' =>  $this->url('whatever', array('action' => 'add')))); ?>

Partial

<?php
$form = $this->form;
$form->setAttribute ( 'action', $this->url () );
$form->prepare ();

echo $this->form ()->openTag ( $form );
foreach ( $form as $element ) :
?>
    <div
        class="control-group <?php if($this->formElementErrors($element)) echo "error" ?>">
        <label class="control-label"><?php echo $element->getLabel() ?></label>
        <div class="controls">
                <?php echo $this->formElement ( $element );
                    if ($this->formElementErrors ( $element ))
                ?>
            <span class="help-inline"><?php echo $this->formElementErrors($element) ?></span>
        </div>
    </div>
<?php
endforeach;
echo $this->form ()->closeTag ( $form );
?>

The exceptions are left out for clearity's sake...

Answer 2

I did it the way @Rufinus mentioned. See this Tutorial on how to create View Helpers in ZF2 http://blog.evan.pro/creating-a-simple-view-helper-in-zend-framework-2

In my case I simply wanted to wrap form elements with list items so I extended the original ZF2 View Helpers and let them do the rendering of the elements. I Just wrapped what they return:

View Helper FormCollection.php

<?php
// ./src/Application/View/Helper/FormCollection.php
namespace Application\View\Helper;

use Zend\Form\ElementInterface;
use Zend\Form\View\Helper\FormCollection as BaseFormCollection;

class FormCollection extends BaseFormCollection {
    public function render(ElementInterface $element) {
        return '<ul>'.parent::render($element).'</ul>';
    }
}

View Helper FormElement.php

<?php
// ./src/Application/View/Helper/FormElement.php
namespace Application\View\Helper;

use Zend\Form\ElementInterface;
use Zend\Form\View\Helper\FormElement as BaseFormElement;

class FormElement extends BaseFormElement {

    public function render(ElementInterface $element) {
        if ($element->getOption('required')) {
            $req = 'required';
        }
        $type = $element->getAttribute('type');
        $name = $element->getAttribute('name');
        return sprintf('<li class="%s %s %s">%s</li>', $name, $req, $type,  parent::render($element));
    }
}

while my view looks like this and didn't need to be modified for the changes to take effect.

<?php 
$form = $this->form;
$form->prepare();
echo $this->form()->openTag($form);
echo $this->formCollection($form);
echo $this->form()->closeTag($form);

worked like a charm.