Re: Handling unspecified number of sub-forms with Zend_Form

> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Bart McLeod <mcleod@...> wrote:
>
>     I would do like you do, inspect the post data. However, it would be nice if
>     you would just have to know the number of subforms you are processing.
>     Javascript can easily update a counter in a hidden field on your mainform.
>     It increments the count each time you add a subform dynamically. This
>     counter is the only post element you will have to evaluate in order to know
>     how many subforms to process.
>
>     Bart McLeod
>
>     Sagi Bashari schreef:
>
>
>         Hello,
>
>         I have a form that can generate any number of input fields dynamically
>         (the fields are generated using javascript).
>
>         The fields have some nested sub-form structure:
>         1. There can be many "feature" forms, and each has a name: features
>         [feature0,..,featureN][name]
>         2. Each of these feature forms has many items, and each item has a
>         name: features[feature0][items][item0,..,itemN][name]
>
>         (Actually they have many other fields except the name but this is
>         enough for the example).
>
>         I managed to handle a static number of such sub-forms with Zend_Form,
>         by attaching multiple instances of a FeatureForm to my main form, and
>         attaching multiple instances of ItemForm to the FeatureForm (inside a
>         container sub-form).
>
>         However, I wonder how can I add these sub-forms dynamically.
>
>         I thought about creating some pre-processing method that will get the
>         $_POST data, inspect it and add fields accordingly before calling
>         isValid().
>
>         Can anyone think of a better (more Zend_Form-like) way of handling such
>         situation?
>
>         Thanks,
>         Sagi
>
>