Is there any easy way to get HTML5 Form elements into a Zend Form? createElement('tel','phone'); just doesn't work because zend doesn't support html5 form elements yet it seems... you can't override the type attribute either after it's been created.
E.G. I need input type="tel/email/date/number" etc on my zend form.
Nevermind, I found this article: http://www.enrise.com/2010/12/html5-zend-framework-form-elements/. I just had to copy his code into my MVC architecture and it works now. Except I had to put $this->setAttrib('type','number') for example in Number.php, because it doesn't add the option unless its set in the controller, which is a bit stupid because I was creating a new Glitch_Form_Element_Text_Number or whatever o_O.
Benno,
Here is what I did to get Glitch to work: (Zend Framework 1.11)
in my Controller init() function
//someController extends Zend_Controller_Action
public function init(){
$this->view->addHelperPath('Glitch/View/Helper', 'Glitch_View_Helper_');
}
Then in my element creation, I simply override the type with attrib('type','email')
public function getEmailField(){
$element = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('email');
$element->setLabel('Email');
$element->setAttrib("type", "email");
$element->setRequired();
return $element;
}
Without setting the view helpers, the input changes to Text.
Thanks!
I've created a writeup that shows how to best use the Enrise HTML5 form elements, reiterating the fact that you need specify the HTML5 doctype.
Here is what I did to solve for XML5 elements.
First I created a custom form element on: library/Custom/Form/Element/Html5.php
<?php
/** Zend_Form_Element_Xhtml */
require_once 'Zend/Form/Element/Xhtml.php';
class Custom_Form_Element_Html5 extends Zend_Form_Element_Xhtml
{
public $helper = 'formHtml5';
}
Then I created a custom view helper on: library/Custom/View/Helper/FormHtml5.php
<?php
/**
* Abstract class for extension
*/
require_once 'Zend/View/Helper/FormElement.php';
/**
* Helper to generate an "Html5" element
*
*/
class Custom_View_Helper_FormHtml5 extends Zend_View_Helper_FormElement
{
public function formHtml5($name, $value = null, $attribs = null)
{
$info = $this->_getInfo($name, $value, $attribs);
extract($info); // name, value, attribs, options, listsep, disable
// build the element
$disabled = '';
if ($disable) {
// disabled
$disabled = ' disabled="disabled"';
}
// XHTML or HTML end tag?
$endTag = ' />';
if (($this->view instanceof Zend_View_Abstract) && !$this->view->doctype()->isXhtml()) {
$endTag= '>';
}
$xhtml = '<input'
. ' type="' . (($attribs['type'])?($this->view->escape($attribs['type'])):'text') . '"'
. ' name="' . $this->view->escape($name) . '"'
. ' id="' . $this->view->escape($id) . '"'
. ' value="' . $this->view->escape($value) . '"'
. $disabled
. $this->_htmlAttribs($attribs)
. $endTag;
return $xhtml;
}
}
Then in the Form I added this:
class Application_Form_UserBasic extends Zend_Form
{
public function init()
{
// this will tell zf to look for custom helpers on your custom library
$view = $this->getView();
$view->addHelperPath(APPLICATION_PATH.'/../library/Custom/View/Helper/', 'Custom_View_Helper');
/* Some other code */
$email = new Custom_Form_Element_Html5('email');
$email->setAttribs(array( 'type' => 'email'));
/* Your other elements*/
$this->addElements(array(
$email, /* your other elements */
));
}
}
Do not forget to add this line to your application.ini file in case you have not done so:
autoloaderNamespaces[] = "Custom_"
I hope it helps somebody.
Since there's no "out of box" solution, i wrote it my self and made a composer package for easy distribution.
If you use composer, you can use it https://github.com/Alez/html5input
- type in console composer require alez/html5input
- in your form class just create an instance Html5Input_Element_AnyType with "type" attribute or set it "type" attribute to whatever you want with
php $formElement->setAttrib('type', 'email')
. And that's the only difference between it and Zend_Form_Element_Text, you can treat it as simple text element.
Example code:
class My_Form extends Zend_Form
{
public function init()
{
$email = new Html5Input_Element_AnyType('email', array(
'type' => 'email',
));
$this->addElement($email);
}
}