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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 theFormRow
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:
Method signature | Description |
---|---|
__invoke(FormInterface $form = null) : string |
Prepares and renders the whole form. |
openTag(FormInterface $form = null) : string |
Renders the <form> open tag for the $form instance. |
closeTag() : string |
Renders a </form> closing tag. |