placeholder text in zend text element

Question

I am working on a Zend form application where my form contains text boxes with watermarks.

we can achieve this in HTML by the following code:

<input type="text" placeholder="Search" name="q" />

My question is how to add the placeholder attribute in my input-box using Zend form ?

Answer 1

It's already been mentioned to use:

$element->setAttrib('placeholder', 'Search');

You can also use it like this when extending Zend_Form

$element = $this->createElement('text', 'q', array(
           'placeholder' => 'Search',
           'label'       => 'Search'
));

Or inside the view using Zend_View_Helper_FormText

echo $this->formText('q',null, array('placeholder' => 'Search'));