My post “Combining DHTMLRules, tableless layout and multiple page forms with HTML_QuickForm” led to several inqueries about why the layout with the shown code snippets still uses tables. The answer is: One needs to tell HTML_QuickForm_Controller (QFC) about the usage of another renderer.
To achieve this, three basic steps are needed:
Step 1: Include the code of the tableless renderer.
require_once 'HTML/QuickForm/Renderer/Tableless.php';
Step 2: Create a new class that extends from the HTML_QuickForm_Action_Display class, and overload the _renderForm() method. This method basically does the same as the code examples for the single page forms do. The only difference is the usage of $page instead of $form (a page in QFC extends the HTML_QuickForm class).
class Tableless_Display extends HTML_QuickForm_Action_Display
{
function _renderForm(&$page)
{
$renderer =& new HTML_QuickForm_Renderer_Tableless();
$page->accept($renderer);
echo $renderer->toHtml();
}
}
Step 3: Tell QFC to use the new class instead of the default HTML_QuickForm_Action_Display class for displaying the form. ($wizard is a HTML_QuickForm_Controller instance in this example.)
$wizard->addAction('display', new Tableless_Display());
After these three steps, you should have a tableless layout together with DHTML rules.