title: Stand alone Zend Form with custom elements
body: <p>I am trying to make a stand alone Zend Form with a custom form element. I need use custom view helper to create this element.  How do I register a custom view helper path without an application.ini file?</p>
  
  <pre><code>set_include_path(
  implode(PATH_SEPARATOR, array(
      get_include_path(),
      PATH_TO_ZF_LIBRARY
  )));
  
  require_once 'Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php';
  $autoloader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();
  
  $autoloader-&gt;registerNamespace( 'My' ); 
  
  $form = new Zend_Form;
  
  ... create and add zend form elements here
  
  //display form
  echo $form-&gt;render(new Zend_View());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also, will the custom Zend_Form_Element know to look for the custom helper in the new path? According to the docs all I have to do is create public $helper var with the class name of the view helper.  But I can't figure out if that will work with a custom view helper.</p>
  
  <pre><code>class My_Form_Element_Ssn extends Zend_Form_Element_Xhtml 
  {
      public $helper = 'ssnElement';
  
      public function setValue()
      {
  
      }
  
      public function getValue()
      {
          return '12345';
      }
  }
  
  class My_View_Helper_SsnElement
  extends Zend_View_Helper_FormElement
  {
  
      public function ssnElement( $name, $value = null, $attribs = null )
      {
          return 'SSN';
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I thank you in advance for your assistance.</p>