In Zend Framework 2, so much has been changed, updated and improved – with Forms receiving a lot of attention. In this post, I show you a simple, flexible and powerful approach to compose and use them everywhere in your applications.

In today’s post, we look at one of the simplest and most effective components of the Zend Framework that allows us to create extendable and extensible Zend Framework applications – Zend Application Resource Plugins (combined with the Strategy Pattern). If you want to ensure your apps can grow without heartache, read on.

If you’ve been using Zend Forms for any length of time, you’ll know just how flexible and configurable they are. There’s not much that you can’t do with them, But it’s not always easy and there are catches. Today we look at ensuring that module-based Zend Forms using the ViewScript decorator can always be initialised no matter what.

Welcome to the fourth and final part in the Zend Form Mastery with Zend Config series. Previously we looked at the basic form options, element and form wide prefixes, filters and element options. In this installment, we’re going to look at configuring Zend Validators via our XML config.

This is a Multi Part Series. Check out the other parts: Part 1 – Custom Filter Paths Part 2 – Core Form Configuration Part 4 – Configuring Zend Validators Options We’ve looked at custom form filters and we’ve looked at the core form configuration. But what about the other form properties? What about: setting an [...]

Today we move on in learning how to configure the basics of Zend Forms, such as: action, method, enctype, accept, accept-charset et al with Zend Config XML. It couldn’t be simpler.

When you’re working with Zend Form you keep your configuration as much out of code as you can – right? Well, if you’ve been working withZend Form for more than a little while, you know that Zend Config really makes that pretty simple – well, some of the time. In this series we look, comprehensively at how to do it all with Zend_Config.

Want to use 2 or more buttons in a html form, but you’re having trouble knowing which button you clicked to submit the form, when it’s time to validate it? If you’re using Zend Form, there’s a very simple way to know. Let’s look at it today.