Comments on: Zend_Form Radio Buttons

By: Daniel Del Rio

Daniel Del Rio — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:43:59 +0000

@Dave,

I ended up figuring it out. ->setValue does do the trick but it wasn’t working for me because I wasn’t using the formRadio view helper to print out the element. I wrote my own custom one and forgot to print out the $checked variable in my element’s markup.

Daniel

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:57:09 +0000

@Daniel,

Have you tried ->setAttribute(‘checked’, ‘checked’). Although I’m guessing this will check the first radio button.

You could also look into this method: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1911293/how-to-set-the-default-checked-value-of-a-zend-form-radio-element

Dave.

By: Daniel Del Rio

Daniel Del Rio — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:49:07 +0000

I’ve tried using the ->setValue(‘R’) you have but it doesn’t pre-select any of the radio buttons. How can I control which radio button is selected?

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:42:07 +0000

Hi Dave,

A better way to set the ‘value’ attributes is to pass an associative array to addMultiOptions, ie

->addMultiOptions(array(
‘true’ => ‘by frequency’,
‘false’ => ‘alphabetically’
))

By: vasim

vasim — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:31:14 +0000

Hi, Dave

Many Thanks for this help…..

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:02:18 +0000

@Mark, @firecall

Thanks for the comments guys.

I can relate to the frustration, however, I’m wary of being overly harsh on problems with the docs, as I think it’s a bit unfair because it’s an open source project. When I started out with Zend, I found the learning curve incredibly frustrating (and made worse by problems I had understanding some of the docs); that is why I’ve posted some stuff on this blog.

I suppose the best way to address these problems is to do as Wil suggested above – contribute documentation back to the community; I also think that posting tutorials / fixes you’ve worked out on blogs can be really helpful for others feeling the frustration you’ve experienced.

By: firecall

firecall — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:20:47 +0000

++ to the infuriating docs. They are annoyingly obtuse at times.

It was easier to use google and find this blog post to grab the correct syntax than to use the official docs. So thanks for taking the time to write it

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:22:54 +0000

Dave, I just have to say, your comments on the lack of documentation for the ZF are refreshing. If I have to hear one more time that “it’s easy” I’m going to pull my hair out. They’re basically asking php programmers to completely re-learn how to build php and html pages. OK, no problem, but how? They tell you the what, but not the where. For instance, they’ll say just instantiate, such and such…. fine, but where? what file and what directory? This tutorial illustrates just how incomplete their documentation really is. There’s nothing in their documentation on how to use an html radio buttons. And why does every incarnation of the framework, use a different directory structure? Everyone claims it’s great, but the learning curve is so huge that it’s only great if you have a month to sit down and recreate the wheel. Anyway, thanks for all your efforts!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:41:53 +0000

Hi Aniket,

Glad to hear it helped.

I haven’t tried horizontal alignment, but I’m sure that you could do that using CSS (and definitely using some JavaScript & CSS)

By: Aniket Kedari

Aniket Kedari — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:58:23 +0000

Thanks for info. I was struggling a lot for radio buttons.
Can you tell me how can we aling radio buttons horizontally.