title: Ajax: How to grab a form with jQuery, and use Zend Form to validate it
body: <p>In this situation, I have a simple form, not generated by Zend:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form id='com-prefs'&gt;
    &lt;input type='checkbox' name='accept-sms' /&gt;
    &lt;input type='checkbox' name='accept-phone' /&gt;
    &lt;input type='checkbox' name='accept-email' /&gt;
    &lt;!-- etc --&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The form is longer than this, but it's essentially just more inputs. Zend_Form's form creation seems bloated, and since I'll be working on this project with others, I don't feel like complicating things with Zend form creation. However, Zend_Form's validation seems much more useful, and I'd like to use it through Ajax.</p>
  
  <p>My question is, how do I grab the above form with jQuery (or just regular JS), and convert it into something that I can make into a Zend_Form easily to use the below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$form-&gt;isValid();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is serializeArray() the route I want to go?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: Using ZF1</p>