Remember phones? (yes those things you text with.) Anis Ahmad recently blogged about how he created a Zend_Form_Element to wrap not only the display but the validation of a phone number. While it won’t handle BR-549, it does seem to handle all modern phone numbers. If you use Zend Framework, click on in, I’ll give you the details and links.

Thursday, July 22, 2010 the Memphis PHP User Group will hold it’s monthly meeting. “Y’all come on down, ya hear?”

New from ZendCasts.com there’s a screencast that will help you ajaxify your Zend_Form instance with the help of jQuery.

On ZendCasts.com today there’s a new screencast aimed at showing off custom Zend_Form decorators for your Zend Framework application.

Matthew Weier O’Phinney continues his series on Zend_Form this morning, writing about how you can create an element within Zend_Form, that will render multiple related form input fields together, and yet handle them all as a single entity.

Another article in Matthew Weier O’Phinney’s series on Zend_Form have been released on how to show decorators individually to end up with custom HTML to use in your application.

This week Matthew Weier O’Phinney continues his mini-series on using Decorators in Zend_Form. This time talking about how to layer multiple decorators together to build up the full markup of an element. Potentially with reusable parts!

Matthew Weier O’Phinney, architect on Zend Framework, has started a series of blog posts about Zend_Form decorators. He wanted to explain how they worked since he had seen quite a bit of confusion over them in the past.

A constant blogger of all things Zend Framework, Jani Hartikainen has this time made a post showing how to extend Zend_Form to handle automatically pulling data from the database to fill in your lists.

Zend_Form
has been lauded by many as a welcome addition to Zend Framework, and a
flexible solution to the problem of forms. That said, one point of
flexibility it offers has proved to be a pain point for many developers:
decorators. This tutorial aims to shed some light on decorators, as well as
provide strategies for creating your own decorators and combining them in
creative ways to customize the output your forms generate.