7. Collecting User Input with Forms

In this chapter, you will become familiar with using web forms for gathering data entered by website users. In Zend Framework 3, functionality for working with forms is mainly spread across four components: the Zend\Form component, which allows you to build forms and contains the view helpers for rendering form elements; the Zend\Filter, Zend\Validator and Zend\InputFilter components which allow you to filter and validate user input.

• 7.1. Get the Form Demo Sample from GitHub
• 7.2. About HTML Forms
  • 7.2.1. Fieldsets
  • 7.2.2. Example: "Contact Us" Form
  • 7.2.3. GET and POST Methods
• 7.3. Styling HTML Forms with Twitter Bootstrap
• 7.4. Installing ZF3 form components
• 7.5. Retrieving Form Data in a Controller's Action
• 7.6. Forms and Model-View-Controller
  • 7.6.1. A Typical Form Usage Workflow
• 7.7. A Form Model
• 7.8. Form Elements
  • 7.8.1. Adding Elements to a Form Model
  • 7.8.2. Method 1: Passing an Instance of an Element
  • 7.8.3. Method 2: Using Array Specification
• 7.9. Example: Creating the Contact Form Model
• 7.10. Adding Form Filtering and Validation Rules
  • 7.10.1. Input Filter
  • 7.10.2. Adding Inputs to Input Filter
    • 7.10.2.1. Filter Configuration
    • 7.10.2.2. Validator Configuration
  • 7.10.3. Creating Input Filter for the Contact Form
• 7.11. Using the Form in a Controller's Action
  • 7.11.1. Passing Form Data to a Model
• 7.12. Form Presentation
  • 7.12.1. Preparing the Form Model for Rendering
• 7.13. Standard Form View Helpers
  • 7.13.1. Rendering a Form Element
  • 7.13.2. Rendering an Element's Validation Errors
  • 7.13.3. Rendering an Element's Label
  • 7.13.4. Rendering a Form Row
  • 7.13.5. Rendering the Entire Form
• 7.14. Example: Creating the View Template for the Contact Form
  • 7.14.1. Applying the Bootstrap CSS Styles to Form
  • 7.14.2. Styling the Validation Errors List
  • 7.14.3. Adding the "Thank You" & "Error Sending Email" Pages
  • 7.14.4. Results
• 7.15. Summary