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Question

I currently have the following code in a ZF application, to set the values of a Form based on a rowset retrieved from a Db-Table.

 $form->forename->setValue($footerContactDetails->forename);
 $form->surname->setValue($footerContactDetails->surname);
 $form->telephone->setValue($footerContactDetails->telephone);
 $form->mobile->setValue($footerContactDetails->mobile);
 $form->fax->setValue($footerContactDetails->fax);
 $form->email->setValue($footerContactDetails->emailAddress);
 $form->address1->setValue($footerContactDetails->address1);
 $form->address2->setValue($footerContactDetails->address2);
 $form->address3->setValue($footerContactDetails->address3);
 $form->townCity->setValue($footerContactDetails->townCity);
 $form->region->setValue($footerContactDetails->region);

As the object element names from the rowset match the form elements, what I'd like to do is the following:

  foreach ($footerContactDetails as $key=>$value) {
       $form->$key->setValue($value);
  }

However this provides the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to a member function setValue() on a non-object

I expect this question is more related to OOP PHP in general and not the just ZF.

So how can I set these form values using a foreach?

Many thanks

Answer 1

The foreach is fine, but the names dont match:

$form->email->setValue($footerContactDetails->emailAddress);

So, when iterating over $footerContactDetails, your code will eventually try to

$form->emailAddress->setValue()

but since there is no element of that name in the Zend_Form (it's called email instead), you'll get the error. So change it accordingly and it will work.

On a sidenote, Zend_Form has a method for bulk setting:

$form->populate((array) $footerContactDetails);

It expects an array though, hence the typecast.