Make sure that you include the jQuery Form plugin in your code, for example with jQuery()-addJavascriptFile(..);

Why don't extend functiality by adding support for jQuery plugins?

You can add functions setLocalPluginPath, getLocalPluginPath?
This will help to do some operartions.

jQuery()-addJavascriptFile($view-jQuery()-getLocalPluginPath() . '/jquery.form.js');
?

You post an excellent example how to write Jquery_View_Helper.
But your method to convert callback options is not ideal.
I think you may to add function to do this into your helper like this.

protected function _convertOptionsToJson($options, $callbacks = array())
{
$callbackOptions = array();
$magic = '____';

if(count($options) 0) {
// Remove Callbacks if present
foreach($callbacks as $key) {
if(isset($options[$key])) {
$callbackOptions[$key] = $options[$key];
$options[$key] = $magic . $key;
}
}

$jsonOptions = Zend_Json::encode($options);

// Restore Callbacks if present
foreach($callbackOptions as $key = $value) {
$jsonOptions = str_replace('"' . $key . '":"' . $magic . $key . '"',
'"' . $key . '":' . $value, $jsonOptions);
}
} else {
$jsonOptions = "{}";
}

return $jsonOptions;
}

this is a genious solution. could you tell me what license this is under? i could put it into the abstract jQuery helper for use with all callback types, this would save tons of hazzle :-)

It's a free code snippet.
You can use this as you wish.
Thanks to you for your great work!

And don't forget to add 'jQuery js plugins' local path support into abstract jQuery helper.
setLocalPluginsPath() and getLocalPluginsPath() :-)
This will help to create independent from js-scripts locations custom view helpers.

Can you to refactore some code in your project?
It need to add fourth parameter if this is possible to functions with these arguments.
($id, $content, $params=array(), $attribs=array())
like this
($id, $content, $params=array(), $attribs=array(), callbacks=array())


callbacks, $callbacks);
// OR
// $this-callbacks = function_to_merge($this-callbacks, $callbacks)
// $params = _convertOptionsToJson($params, $this-callbacks);


$js = sprintf('%s("#%s").dialog(%s);',
ZendX_JQuery_View_Helper_JQuery::getJQueryHandler(),
$attribs['id'],
$params
);
$this-jquery-addOnLoad($js);

$html = '_htmlAttribs($attribs)
. ''
. $content
. '';
return $html;
}
}



Now _convertOptionsToJson() support array non-encoded parameters.
This need for some reasons.
Example:


dialogContainer('dlg1', $content, array('title' = 'Title'),
array(
'modal' = true,
'buttons' = array(
'Delete all items in recycle bin' = 'function(){ alert("deleted!"); }',
'Cancel' = 'function(){ alert("canceled!"); }'
)
)
) ?


Or more useful. What you think?

dialogContainer('dlg1', $content, array('title' = 'Title'),
array(
'modal' = true,
'buttons' = array(
'Delete all items in recycle bin' = ZendX_JQuery::lambda('alert("deleted")'),
'Cancel' = ZendX_JQuery::lambda('alert("canceled")')
)
)
) ?



public static function lamba() // or callback?
{
$args = func_get_args();

switch(func_num_args()) {
case 0:
return "function(){}";
case 1:
return sprintf("function(){ %s }", $args[0]);
default:
return sprintf("function(%s){ %s }", $args[0], $args[1]);
}
}



protected function _convertOptionsToJson($options, $callbacks = array())
{
$callbackOptions = array();
$magic = '____';

if(count($options) 0) {
// Remove Callbacks if present
foreach($callbacks as $key) {
if(isset($options[$key])) {
$callbackOptions[$key] = $options[$key];
$options[$key] = $magic . $key;
}
}

$jsonOptions = Zend_Json::encode($options);

// Restore Callbacks if present
foreach($callbackOptions as $key = $value) {
//
if(is_array($value)) {
$value = $this-_convertOptionsToJson($value, array_keys($value));
}

$jsonOptions = str_replace('"' . $key . '":"' . $magic . $key . '"',
'"' . $key . '":' . $value, $jsonOptions);
}
} else {
$jsonOptions = "{}";
}

return $jsonOptions;
}

Hi Benjamin Eberlei,

Thanks for your great code. I try to understand everything and use it at work for a professional application.

I discovered a little inconsistency in your code.


class ZendX_JQuery_View_Helper_AjaxForm extends Zend_View_Helper_Form
{
....
}



Should be:


class My_JQuery_View_Helper_AjaxForm extends Zend_View_Helper_Form
{
....
}


I hope that you will post more blog articles like this. There is not a lot information on ZendX and Jquery out there. So I am very glad with your contribution.

Cheers, Christine (stinie)

Nice example, thanks for impresive ZendX_Jquery work, I think that AjaxForm view helper can be part of ZendX_Jquery in the distribution.