title: Zend_Form with xthml scripts (without using decorators)
body: <p>(I follow <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Zend_Form-complex-forms-td16785924.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this post</a> to got the logic how to use Zend_Form without using decorators.)</p>
  
  <p>within the action I create Zend_Form object and assigned the form to the view before rendering it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public function indexAction()
  {
          $form = new Zend_Form();
          $form-&gt;setAction('process')
              -&gt;setMethod('post');
  
          $username = $form-&gt;createElement('text','username');
          $username-&gt;addValidator('alnum')
          -&gt;setRequired(true)
          -&gt;addFilter('StringtoLower');
  
          $description = $form-&gt;createElement('textarea','description');
          $description-&gt;addValidator('alnum')
                      -&gt;setRequired(false)
                      -&gt;addFilter('StringtoLower');
  
          $submit = $form-&gt;createElement('submit','Submit');
  
          $form-&gt;addElement($username);
          $form-&gt;addElement($description);
          $form-&gt;addElement($submit);
  
          $this-&gt;view-&gt;form = $form;
          $this-&gt;view-&gt;render('myForm/index.phtml'); //myForm is the actionController
  
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then I add following code to it's view script (index.phtml)</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form&gt;
      &lt;table&gt;
          &lt;tr&gt;
              &lt;td&gt;&lt;label&gt;Username&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;td&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;form-&gt;getElement('username')-&gt;renderElement(); ?&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;/tr&gt;
          &lt;tr&gt;
              &lt;td&gt;&lt;label&gt;Description&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;td&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;form-&gt;getElement('description')-&gt;renderElement(); ?&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;/tr&gt;
          &lt;tr&gt;
              &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;td&gt;&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;form-&gt;getElement('submit')-&gt;renderElement(); ?&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;/table&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it's get an error </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Message: Decorator by name Element
    does not exist</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I didn't use decorators,What is the problem of my code.</p>
  
  <p>This is the complete custom error message </p>
  
  <pre><code>Application error
  Exception information:
  
  Message: Decorator by name Element does not exist
  Stack trace:
  
  #0 [internal function]: Zend_Form_Element-&gt;__call('renderElement', Array)
  #1 C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\Demo1\application\views\scripts\myForm\index.phtml(5): Zend_Form_Element_Text-&gt;renderElement()
  
  #2 C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\Demo1\library\Zend\View.php(108): include('C:\Program File...')
  #3 C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\Demo1\library\Zend\View\Abstract.php(833): Zend_View-&gt;_run('C:\Program File...')
  
  #4 C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\Demo1\application\controllers\MyFormController.php(38): Zend_View_Abstract-&gt;render('myForm/index.p...')
  #5 C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\Demo1\library\Zend\Controller\Action.php(513): myFormController-&gt;indexAction()
  
  #6 C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\Demo1\library\Zend\Controller\Dispatcher\Standard.php(289): Zend_Controller_Action-&gt;dispatch('indexAction')
  #7 C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\Demo1\library\Zend\Controller\Front.php(946): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard-&gt;dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http))
  
  #8 C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\Demo1\library\Zend\Application\Bootstrap\Bootstrap.php(77): Zend_Controller_Front-&gt;dispatch()
  #9 C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\Demo1\library\Zend\Application.php(335): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap-&gt;run()
  
  #10 C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\Demo1\public\index.php(27): Zend_Application-&gt;run()
  #11 {main} 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How I solve this problem without using decorators</p>