Are you just trying to output your form using <?php echo $this->form; ?> from your view script? That works well for simple forms, but for my more complex forms I tend to render each element individually but don’t need to use ViewScript decorator on each individual element to do this. Just try something like this … Read more
The File element requires it’s own decorator – Zend_Form_Decorator_File. $this->setElementDecorators(array( ‘File’, ‘Errors’, array(array(‘data’ => ‘HtmlTag’), array(‘tag’ => ‘td’)), array(‘Label’, array(‘tag’ => ‘th’)), array(array(‘row’ => ‘HtmlTag’), array(‘tag’ => ‘tr’)) )); [edit] Have just noticed that you are also using other form elements. After your original code, add: $this->getElement(‘Excel’)->setDecorators( array( ‘File’, ‘Errors’, array(array(‘data’ => ‘HtmlTag’), array(‘tag’ => … Read more
The answer is relatively simple as it happens. All you need do is specify the File decorator first, create a specific view script for the file input and specify false for the placement in the viewScript decorator arguments, this will effectively inject the output from the File decorator into the viewScript decorator e.g. $element->setDecorators(array(‘File’, array(‘ViewScript’, … Read more
The only way I can think of at the moment is to add a dummy element to the form and remove all decorators except an ‘HtmlTag’ with the attributes you specified in your question. Removing the decorators means that the actual element will not be rendered – only the HtmlTag decorator will be rendered. so … Read more