How to add a radio button to a form with Zend Framework?

Question

the issue is not so much as adding a radio button form element but how to i match it in my script format. It looks like there are multiple ways of doing things in zend.

here is my script:

 $this->addElement('text', 'time_from', array(
        'id' => 'datepicker',
        'class' => 'time_from',
        'filters' => array('StringTrim', 'StripTags'),
        'required' => true,
        'label' => 'Start Date of the Week: ',
        'value' => ''
    ));

    $update = $this->addElement('submit', 'update', array(
        'required' => false,
        'ignore' => true,
        'label' => 'Change Time'
            ));

based on this template, how do i add a radio button?

i believe a logical approach would be to use something like this:

$this->addElement('radio', 'test', array(
            'label'=>'Test Thing',
            'addMultiOptions'=>array(
                'male' => 'Male',
            'female' => 'Female'
            ),
    ));

but this doesn't display any radio buttons.

I've also tried to replace the :

'male' => 'Male',
'female' => 'Female'

with and array, but i get all kind of errors:

array('male'=>'Male', 'female'=>'Female')

any ideas on how to do this?

and , if is ot too much to ask maybe someone can explain why so many ways to do this forms and what is the common nominator in between them.

thanks

Solution

You were quite right, but since you construct the element with addElement() you don't have addMultiOptions (the function name), it's just multiOptions.

$this->addElement('radio', 'test', array(
    'label'=>'Test Thing',
    'multiOptions'=>array(
        'male' => 'Male',
        'female' => 'Female',
    ),
));

You can see a summary of all Zend_Form elements here Edit: updated link.

Comments

[Jonathan Clark]

Set a default option by adding 'value' => 'male' in the same format as 'label' => 'Test Thing'