Hi,

I am trying (with very little success) to generate a form that a user clicks on, then this is sent and a lookup done in a database. The result is then passed back to a form to allow the user to alter the data returned from the database.

How do I prepopulate a field in zend_frames?

I have :

$lastName = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('Student_LastName');
$lastName ->setLabel('Last Name')
->setRequired(true)
->addValidator('NotEmpty')
->setDecorators(array
(
'ViewHelper',
'Errors',
array(array('data' => 'HtmlTag'), array('tag' => 'td', 'class' => 'element')),
array('Label', array('tag' => 'td')),
array(array('row' => 'HtmlTag'), array('tag' => 'tr')),
));

I want to set the default value as $row.['lastname']. What is the best way to do this?

I would think it would be with a decorator but after searching for an hour am going around in circles and think I may have just gradually made this very complicated in my head )

Sorry, This should read how do I populate a default value into a form element.

No tzend_frames. Less coffee I think

Yep - made it to complicated.

Its:

$form1->setDefaults(array());

I initially tried this but mis-read the doc's and thought you applied the setDefaults to the element but you set it on the form. All working now