Datalist input type added

[david4worx]

Added type to the input field so it can be controlled from the elementas to what kind of datalist should be rendered

[seaneble]

Thanks for this interesting code. But unfortunately I cannot quite agree this is the final solution.
What I definitely miss are the id and name attributs for the <input> tag. I think it would be good to move them from the <datalist> to the field itself and name the datalist with a suffix (like _data) or something.

[seaneble]

Actually, at the moment it would also not be possible to set the following attributes:

• value
• min
• max
• step

I think, it might be better to change the other form fields towards supporting datalists instead of adding all the necessary options to the Datalist form element.

[david4worx]

Ahh I misunderstood part of the question then.
But considering that, wouldn't you need the input type=range field? That field does exactly that as you requested.

[seaneble]

I need to create the following code with Zend_Form :-)

<input id="duration" name="duration" type="range" value="60" min="1" max="2400" list="duration_list" />
<output name="duration_value">60</output>
<datalist id="duration_list">
    <option value="10" label="ten minutes">ten minutes</option>
    <option value="30" label="half an hour">half an hour</option>
    <option value="60" label="one hour">one hour</option>
    <option value="120" label="two hours">two hours</option>
    <option value="240" label="half a day">half a day</option>
    <option value="480" label="one day">one day</option>
    <option value="960" label="two days">two days</option>
</datalist>

As this is the only good library I could find that adds HTML5 support to Zend, I'd like to get this to work. Do you think it is of general interest to generate code like above or should I build something in my own library?

[david4worx]

Sorry for the long delay.

I've haven't had the time to dev something together like what you want. But I'll put it on my todo list.
You could always try your skills and build something yourself and make a pull request when it's ready.