Zend Form: How do I make it bend to my will?

Question

I\'ve read the manual many times, I\'ve scoured the posts offered by Google on the subject, I have even bought a couple of books that deal with ZF. Now, why am I still confused?

Answer 1

Sean McSomething's first advice is the way to go for me. I've always thought that doing form ?> to render a form is too magical. I'll take it a step further though and render individual decorators rather than individual elements via $element->renderDecorator() magic methods. This way, you won't have to worry about the order in which you defined your decorators. You just need them to be there, and you won't have to add those pesky, unintuitive HtmlTag decorators. I made a blog post about this.