Way(s) to write bare html in the form

Hi Seth,

Congratulations for the great class!

I would like to know how could I write HTML code to put explanations between some fields? I thought something like form->addElement('html','<p>this is a sentence</p>'); would work, but it doesn't exist.

So what's the correct way to do it?

Thanks a lot for any help there...

greetings from brasil,

daniel tygel

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to put that HTML directly into your template? It is certainly possible to do this with an SForm element, but I question whether it's needed.

Well, maybe I don't know sufficiently about templates handling.

I thought that a template just says where and how the "display" command will be executed (design). But sometimes I want a comment between one field and other, or between two fieldsets (small instructions and explanations --> help ad hoc). Is that possible through templates?

daniel

I'm not sure if I completely understand you, so we may be saying the same thing.

I've tried to reduce the size of SForm by only including form functionality. A command like "$form->addElement('html','<p>this is a sentence</p>');" seems to me to be template functionality.

For example, using the Smarty template engine my commands would look like this:
<?php
$form = new SForm();

//Construct form

$tpl = new Smarty();

$rndr = new SForm_Renderer_Array();
$this->render($rndr);

$arr = $rndr->fetch($form);

$tpl->assign($arr);

$tpl->assign('additionalText', '<p>this is a sentence</p>');
$tpl->assign('evenMoreText', '<p>this is another sentence</p>');

$tpl->display('myTemplate.xhtml');
?>

Does this make sense?