Recently I have been tasked to organize some form fields into nice columns. Normally you would use display groups. Since you really can not nest display groups, subforms were the answer. I have split my elements into 2 different sections and w/in these sections are basic incarnations of forms at the basic level ( utilizing the init() and extending Zend_Form() ). w/in each form I have many elements and display groups.

so in a nut shell here’s what i have,

this totally reminds me of the big lebowski. we put the toned down version, but if you want to know what was really said, replace stranger in the alps with one of the above tags

Here you go Larry.
You see what happens?
You see what happens Larry?
You see what happens?
This is what happens Larry.
You see what happens Larry?
You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
This is what happens.
You see what happens Larry?
You see what happens Larry?

now here’s my take on the Zend_Navigation and routes. Normally you can set a resource class to do this, but I rather do it in the bootstrap. kinda the same thing in my opinion, i decided not to use a xml config but a ini config type, this way you don’t have to worry if your tags are closed properly. if it works for you awesome.


protected function _initNavigation() {
// set up navigation
$this->bootstrap('layout');
$layout = $this->getResource('layout');
$view = $layout->getView();
$config = new Zend_Config_Ini(APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/navigation.ini','navi');
$navigation = new Zend_Navigation($config);
$view->navigation($navigation);
return $view;
}


protected function _initRoutes() {
$config = new Zend_Config_Ini(APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/navigation.ini', 'routes');
$front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$router = $front->getRouter();
$router->addConfig($config,'routes');
$front->setRouter($router);
return $router;
}

sample ini file

;put routes here.
[routes]
routes.dashboard.route = "/dashboard"
routes.dashboard.defaults.controller = index
routes.dashboard.defaults.action = dashboard


;navigation
[navi]
dashboard.route = "dashboard"
dashboard.controller = index
dashboard.action = dashboard
dashboard.label = dashboard
dashboard.class = dashboard


With the recent popularity of Conan o’Brian growing, he too is being subject to parody. the latest that team coco’s followers have produced.