Zend Framework users know that Dojo toolkit is integrated to 1.6+ release. In the previous post I demonstrated how to add a cool Dojo date picker widget to your text input form element by manually typing the JavaScript code. In this post let us discover how to create a cool date picker form element with Zend_Dojo. As the title says you don't have to write a single line of JavaScript. Zend_Dojo does all the work for you.

Prerequisite: you are familiar with Zend_Form, Zend_Controller and Zend_Layout.

Bootstrap: Zend Framework comes with many Dojo specific view helpers. You have to instruct the view object to find Dojo view helpers.

Grab the view object and add the following line in your bootstrap file.

Introduction to Zend Framework

Zend Framework is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the New BSD License. Zend Framework provides many components like Zend_Form, Zend_Controller, Zend_Validate, Zend_Filter to build web secure and robust applications fairly faster.

To know more about Zend Framework visit the following websites:

• http://framework.zend.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zend_Framework

Zend_Form: