howto - zend framework 2 - form multilingual error messages and labels
Since the first time working with the new zend framework 2 form elements, i like it. Everybody who had the pleasure to deal with the form class from zend framework 1 will agree on that. But after a little bit of playing around with it, i had to build a form that works with multiple languages and has a lot of mandatory fields. Since you are injecting a filterclass with validators into the form, you have to create the error message inside the filter class and like:
//part of a form filter constructor
$this->add(
array(
'name' => 'name',
'filters' => array(
array(
'name' => 'StringTrim'
)
),
'validators' => array(
array(
'name' => 'NotEmpty',
'options' => array(
'messages' => array(
\Zend\Validator\NotEmpty::IS_EMPTY =>
'I am the error message that should be multilingual.'
)
)
)
)
)
);
So the simple question is how to deal with it? To keep it simple, i will not use the translator inside the following example. Assuming you a form with a input field for an email address. You can deal with it the following way.
<?php echo $this->form()->openTag($this->form); ?>
<dl>
<dt>
<!-- we don't use the method ->getOption('lable') since we want to deal the multiple languages inside the template -->
Your mail address
</dt>
<dd>
<?php echo $this->formEmail($this->form->get('email));
$messages = $this->form->get('from')->getMessages();
//take a look inside the $messages since it is an array with keys like 'isEmpty'
// if you want to create error messages by key, thats the way you can handle this.
if (!empty($messages)) {
echo '<label for="from" class="error">Please insert a valid email address.</lable>';
}
?>
</dd>
</dl>