View Helpers

Form

The Form view helper is used to render a <form> HTML element and its attributes.

If provided a Laminas\Form\Form instance, it will:

• prepare() the instance
• iterate it, and:
  • pass non-collection Laminas\Form\Element instances to the FormRow helper to render, and
  • pass collections and fieldsets to the FormCollection helper to render.

For more fine-grained control, us the form() helper only for emitting the opening and closing <form> tags, and manually use other helpers to render the individual elements and fieldsets.

Basic usage

/**
 * inside a view template
 *
 * @var \Laminas\View\Renderer\PhpRenderer $this
 * @var \Laminas\Form\Form $form
 */

echo $this->form($form);

might result in markup like the following:

<form action="" method="POST">
   <label>
      <span>Some Label</span>
      <input type="text" name="some_element" value="">
   </label>
</form>

Public methods

The following public methods are in addition to those inherited from the AbstractHelper: