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Thanks!

Rob…

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but this may not work I suppose if you are using the layout engine.

You can style a form with css. dd and dl lists can easily be styles with css as can input fields, labels etc etc.

For a specific form you can also use css selectors. E.g.

and then you can write a style such as div#form1 .form {}

which only applies to forms with an ID of form1.

I too haven't properly got my head around decorators either so I might be completely missing the point.

Still can't get the Form_Element_MultiCheckbox class to work though.

Anyone got any thoughts on that?

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There's lots of stuff in the manual about decorators, and I've got some of it to work on your sample, but it's not clear to me how to do things like
1) wrap the form elements in a div with a specific classname
2) create a standard look and feel for all forms
3) override that look and feel for a specific form.

If you can point me in a direction that would be cool.

Can you explain decorators? I read the zend manual and am still lost. Your form example shows the fields on one line in IE. How would I change the to a

I just get get my head around this.

Thanks
Frank

I keep getting:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method Zend_Form_Element_Checkbox::addMultiOptions() in /home/adamrifat/ultimateworks/forms/CreateContractorForm.php on line 29

or

Fatal error: Class 'Zend_Form_Element_Multi_Checkbox' not found in /home/adamrifat/ultimateworks/forms/CreateContractorForm.php on line 28

am I doing something wrong?

I am simply writing

$services = new Zend_Form_Element_MultiCheckbox('services');

In your form can't you do something like:

$tickbox = new Zend_Form_Element_Checkbox('box);

if ($value_from_database == 1) {
$tickbox->setCheckedValue('1′)
} else {
$tickbox->setCheckedValue('0′)
}

and then set the labels etc up as normal. Or am I misunderstanding?

I'm trying to edit data using Zend_Form. As Matthew told Basty (22/02/2008) I pull the values from my database (using Zend_Db_Table_Row), cast them to an array and pass them to populate.
My problem is that I have a couple of columns in my database which have binary values ('0′ or '1′) and I want to show them in my form with a checkbox (checked = 1 and unchecked = 0). It works when I'm adding new info to my database, but when I populate the form with existing data (edit action) they always appear checked. So, how can I get them checked only if the database's value is '1′??

Thanks!!

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