Zend fw, custom validation errors

Question

Hello,

I am creating a website with Zend_Form. In my controller, I assign a form object to the view. In the view, I use the following code to render the form:

<?php if ( isset( $this->success ) ): ?>
    <div class="message success"><p>Thanks!</p></div>
<?php elseif ( sizeof( $this->form->getMessages( ) ) > 0 ): ?>
    <div class="message success"><p>Something went wrong..</p></div>
<?php endif; ?>

<form>
    <label>Name:</label>
    <?php echo $this->form->name; ?>

    <label>E-mail:</label>
    <?php echo $this->form->name; ?>
</form>

Until now, this way of checking if there were form errors was good enough. But my client asked me if I could also specify the field that was not correct. So, for example: "Warning: you forgot to fill in your name". I've really got no idea on how to do this with Zend. Does anybody know where to start?

Thanks,

Martijn

Answer 1

You should be able to see it by requesting getErrors(); on the Zend_Form object.

It will return a array of errors where the key is the field name returns something like this.

array(
 'fieldname' => array('error1', 'error2'),
 'username' => array('errors')
);

You could also call $form->getElements() and iterate over each element to see which one is throwing errors