So…

With the release of beta 5 for Zend Framework 2 I thought it time for me to tidy up and fix a few modules I created back at beta 3.

Now I’m a big fan of Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework as I’m sure a lot of other people are as well. Seeing that the Zend Skeleton Application comes with bootstrap already included it was easy enough to set up my forms using the old ZF Forms found in ZF1.

However a brand spanking new Forms component has been rolled out with ZF2. The long and the short of this new component meant that I had the opportunity to hand roll a new way of making my forms work with Twitter Bootstrap.

So, a little tinkering, a quick pull request to ZF2 to allow the definition of arbitrary options and I came up with some useful View Helpers that can be dropped into a project and used.

You can find them at https://github.com/zucchi/Zucchi.

So how to use them. Lets start by creating a new form (we’ll keep it simple for now)
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