Your code looks like a dynamic form rendered into table format. One possibility besides Zend Fieldsets is to generate your basic form structure dynamically wihtin OOP-Constructor, like @Sam said.
In your case, you should have a concept of which the form is structured. E.g. you have an array with data from a database, which gives you for example the number and names of your "columns" and so the structure how to build your dynamic form.
Following example uses Zend Form constructor to generate a dynamic form. Number of columns are dynamic and specified by given array $tableColumns
<?php
class DynamicForm extends Form {
/**
* This constructor builds a Zend Form dynamically
*
* @param array $tableColumns Dynamic data e.g. 'Column Name 1'
*/
public function __construct($tableColumns) {
// Add table name input
$this->add(array(
'type' => 'text',
'name' => 'name'
));
// Add table title input
$this->add(array(
'type' => 'text',
'name' => 'title'
));
// iterate each dynamic data
foreach($tableColumns as $column) {
$this->add(array(
'type' => 'text',
'name' => $column['name']
));
}
}
}
This is how you generate the Zend form structure. Rendering works similar, but within yout view code.
<?php
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>". $this->formElement($form->get('name')) . "</td>";
echo "<td>". $this->formElement($form->get('title')) . "</td>";
foreach($tableColumns as $column) {
echo "<td>". $this->formElement($column) ."</td>";
}
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
?>
In my opinion it is much more comfortable to render a form dynamically into a table format, than it's possible a Fieldset.
But nevertheless Zend Form Collection (e.g. Fieldsets) is a good choice, if you have to add or remove Form-elements dynamically with Javascript and handle your form data also highly dynamically.
More information about Zend From Collections are described at the ZF2 Reference Manual
