Comments on: Multiple Forms on a page in Zend Framework

By: Nicklas

Nicklas — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:09:28 +0000

I wanted the same controller/action, but my solution was to make one more route structure and put in a extra param:
domain.com/controller/action/action2

And to pick up that forms action just if action2 == “thisformsparam”

By: Jamshid

Jamshid — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:58:59 +0000

It’s Just I need it. I’d also this problem.
But it’s very nice. Forms are working.
Thanks to Dwamian Mcleish.

By: bzz

bzz — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:22:04 +0000

Very good. Thank you both. Dwamian Mcleish, you have just forgotten to add your hidden element :
$this->addElements(array($process));
Otherwise it works very well.

By: Dwamian Mcleish

Dwamian Mcleish — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:13:07 +0000

You solution above works well but how about we simplify the process a bit. How do you feel about this?

Back in the day we use to just put hidden fields in our form and check if it “isset’ when it comes time to process the form. How about just adding a hidden field in your form e.g

//form process flag in case multiple forms $process = new Zend_Form_Element_Hidden ( 'process_signup' ); $process->setValue(true);

then check it in the controller to make sure it exists..e.g

//try to grab the form data @$formData = $this->getRequest ()->getPost (); if ($this->getRequest ()->isPost () && isset($formData['process_signup'])) {...only do all the validation and processing here..}

That way forms can co-exist without a lot of back and forth processing and messing with the registry.

What are your arguments against this method?