Best way to deal with Zend for Element hinting?

Question

ex.

<Form>
  <input type="text"/>
  <span style="display block">your text should be between 4-8 chars</span>
</form>

anyhow just need some kind of pregenerated hint message so I can show hint using JS(Jquery) afterwile what is best way to deal , extending the parent class or is there some other way?

Answer 1

This article may be useful for you: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/06/12/tooltips-scripts-ajax-javascript-css-dhtml/

Answer 2

If you want to use this text as additional description, use

Zend_Form_Element::setDescription()

If you want to have this as a tooltip of the input element, use

Zend_Form_Element::setAttrib()

If you want this to show as an error message, set the appropriate validator.

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Reference:

• http://framework.zend.com/apidoc/core/
• http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.form.quickstart.html

Answer 3

My 2c, don't use Zend_Form, work directly with view helpers, as in:

<?php echo $this->formText('email', '[email protected]', array('size' => 32)) ?>
<div .tip>bla bla </div>

I find ZF Zend Form way too obtrusive, it has only few really useful cases.