How to enclose the validation message in a tag

Questions Components & MVC
1

Hello.

Normally, the validation message seems to be

<ul><li>message</li></ul>.

I would like to change this to

<div class="alert-danger"><ul><li>message</li></ul></div>.

Is there any way to enclose a validation message in a

<div class="foo">

tag?

I found a way;

<div class="alert-danger">
<?= $this->formRow($form->get('email')) ?>
</div>

but it not smart, I think.

3

Hi, as long as it fits your design you’re good. But is there a better way? Laminas Docs have shown one way of doing it here. Thanks!

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4

I took your advice and found the following method.

In Module.php

public function onBootstrap(MvcEvent $e)
{
...
	//Get View class
	$app = $e->getApplication();
	$view = $app->getServiceManager()->get(PhpRenderer::class);

	//set 'class' to  <ul> in FormElementErrors
	$pg = $view->plugin("form_element_errors");
	$pg->setAttributes(['class'=>'alert-danger']);
}

so, I can enclose messages <ul class="alert-danger">, and it is what I want to do.

Thank you for your advice!

5

Do not use the onBootstrap method for this because the method is always executed. This means that the view helper FormElementErrors is always called, even if it is not needed!

Create a factory for the view helper and make all settings there. An example of how to use the configuration of your application can be found in laminas-view:

Also have a look at the documentation of the module manager: Best Practices when Creating Modules - laminas-modulemanager - Laminas Docs

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6

Thnak you for your advice!

This advice is very helpful because I was confused about the order in which to perform the initialization.