Zend 1.11, Decorator file location

Question

I search every where but cannot find an answer, so question is, where must be Decorator class, let's look with example:

I have application/forms/Guestbook.php

class Application_Form_Guestbook extends Zend_Form
{

    public function init()
    {

        $this->addPrefixPath('My_Decorator', '/application/forms/decorator', 'decorator');

        $this->setMethod('post');
        $this->addElement('text', 'email', array(
            'label' => 'Your email address',
            'require' => true,
            'filters' => array('StringTrim'),
            'validators' => array('EmailAddress'),
            //'prefixPath' => array('decorator' => array('My_Decorator' => 'application/forms/decorator')),
            'decorators' => array(array('SimpleInput'))));



        // Add the comment element
        $this->addElement('textarea', 'comment', array(
            'label' => 'Please Comment:',
            'required' => true,
            'validators' => array(
                array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 20))
            )
        ));

        // Add a captcha
        $this->addElement('captcha', 'captcha', array(
            'label' => 'Please enter the 5 letters displayed below:',
            'required' => true,
            'captcha' => array(
                'captcha' => 'Figlet',
                'wordLen' => 5,
                'timeout' => 300
            )
        ));

        $this->addElement('submit', 'submit', array('ignore' => true, 'label' => 'Sign Guestbook'));
        $this->addElement('hash', 'csrf', array('ignore' => true));
    }

}

and have application/forms/decorator/SimpleInput.php

class My_Decorator_SimpleInput extends Zend_Form_Decorator_Abstract
{

    protected $_format = '<label for="%s">%s !!!!!!</label><input id="%s" name="%s" type="text" value="%s"/>';

    public function render($content)
    {
        $element = $content->getElement();
        $name = htmlentities($element->getFullyQualifiedName());
        $label = htmlentities($element->getLabel());
        $id = htmlentities($element->getId());
        $value = htmlentities($element->getValue());

        $markup = sprintf($this->_format, $name, $label, $id, $name, $value);

        return $markup;
    }

}

When I try to launch page I have an error on loading of decorator:

An error occurred
Application error
Exception information:

Message: Plugin by name 'SimpleInput' was not found in the registry; used paths: My_Decorator_: /application/forms/decorator/ Zend_Form_Decorator_: Zend/Form/Decorator/
Stack trace:

#0 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/library/Zend/Form/Element.php(1827): Zend_Loader_PluginLoader->load('SimpleInput')
#1 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/library/Zend/Form/Element.php(2207): Zend_Form_Element->_getDecorator('SimpleInput', NULL)
#2 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/library/Zend/Form/Element.php(1980): Zend_Form_Element->_loadDecorator(Array, 'SimpleInput')
#3 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/library/Zend/Form/Element.php(316): Zend_Form_Element->getDecorators()
#4 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/library/Zend/Form/Element.php(271): Zend_Form_Element->loadDefaultDecorators()
#5 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/library/Zend/Form.php(1125): Zend_Form_Element->__construct('email', Array)
#6 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/library/Zend/Form.php(1035): Zend_Form->createElement('text', 'email', Array)
#7 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/application/forms/Guestbook.php(18): Zend_Form->addElement('text', 'email', Array)
#8 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/library/Zend/Form.php(240): Application_Form_Guestbook->init()
#9 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/application/controllers/GuestbookController.php(28): Zend_Form->__construct()
#10 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/library/Zend/Controller/Action.php(516): GuestbookController->signAction()
#11 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/library/Zend/Controller/Dispatcher/Standard.php(308): Zend_Controller_Action->dispatch('signAction')
#12 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/library/Zend/Controller/Front.php(954): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http))
#13 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/library/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/Bootstrap.php(97): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch()
#14 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/library/Zend/Application.php(366): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap->run()
#15 /home/dev/public_html/local.zend.test/public/index.php(26): Zend_Application->run()
#16 {main}  

This example is from quick guide. Question is where must be location of such decorators (default location), or how can I load them and which 'path/to/decorator' I should write (from root\application\forms folder?) because documentation in Zend as usually ugly... =\

Answer 1

edit #3.

I think the problem might be that Zend does not like how you set the path. /application is a absolute path and would probably not resolve where you think.

Try:

$this->addPrefixPath('My_Decorator', APPLICATION_PATH . '/forms/decorator', 'decorator');

That way the path must be good. Its probable that Zend was looking in /public/application/etc... the way you have used it.

Hope this help!