Form->setDescription('test'); not working?

[anomie]

I am also having this problem.

Zend_Form forms are not showing their descriptions.

I have to

echo $this->form->middleName->getDescription();

in order to see descriptions set with

$middleName->setDescription('DEBUG TEST');

[anomie]

Problem solved. Was same as mentioned earlier in thread:

You have to add the Decorator for Description to get Description to display.

Here is way to render HTML in the Description:

       $middleName = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('middleName');          
       $middleName->setLabel('Middle name');     
       $middleName->addDecorator('Description', array('escape' => false,   'placement'=> 'prepend') );             
       $middleName->setDescription('<H1>DEBUG TEST</H1>');

Hth someone.

anomie from Access Data Services

[anomie]

Oh, and heard on IRC #zftalk on irc.freenode.net that in ZF 1.6 the description decorator may be made default which means that if you addDescription() to an element, then it will display by default .