Comments on: why is dijit date picker background bg color transparent?

By: Krish

Krish — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:43:07 +0000

Hey Johnnie,

Thanks for this tip……it helped me a lot….

i’m new to zend framework

By: Gaston

Gaston — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:46:08 +0000

Hi I am having trouble undertanding some of this post, I dont know if you can help me? on this part, how are you doing this?

if ($Z_view_obj->dojo()->isEnabled()){….

thank you

By: Gaston

Gaston — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:15:26 +0000

Ok I think I need to be more clear on my questions, I want to change the background color of the datepicker because the numbers are white like the background, this is what i have on my coding.

1.- On my layout:

dojo(); ?>

2. On my view:
dojo()->addStylesheetModule(’dijit.themes.tundra’);?>

3. On my Form:
$toDate = new Zend_Dojo_Form_Element_DateTextBox(’ToDate’);
$toDate->setRequired(true);
$toDate->setLabel(’To: ‘);

4. Bootstrap:
// Set the Dojo Helper
$view = Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance()->getView();
Zend_Dojo::enableView($view);

and thats it, I am new at dojo and zend in general.

thanks in advance

By: John

John — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:26:45 +0000

@ Gaston
This blog post was written a while a go. So i do not know if things have changed.

To answer your question about the “isEnabled()” bit…. look at the Zend docs example of calling the “isEnabled()” method on the Dojo view helper. I was using Zend View outside of the MVC framework, which might explian my weird Zend View object variable name ($Z_view_obj):

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.dojo.view.html
(To jump to it on the page tell your broswer to search (i.e CTRL+F) for the string: “$this->dojo()->isEnabled” )

But, for me, the key to my solution was something in the HTML body. I.e In your layouts/layout.phtml (or whatever script outputs the html body tag ) you need to remember to add the ‘dojo theme’ to the ‘class’ attribute of the ‘body’ tag in your html. Its a css thang.

For example, if you want to use the ‘tundra’ theme, add the class attribute like this:

…where you add dojo scripts/css

…..

….

My Nice page

…
rest of html content
…

————

Its happens cos
* your head is concentrating on learning Zend Form - which is a feat in itself
* plus you are getting your head around Zend MVC - which is a feat in itself
* plus you are getting your head around Dojo - which is a feat in itself
* plus your mind is thinking ‘backend’ of server
* then you head for the CSS scripts and hack away
* then you come here ;o)

BUT - After all that - the solution is a common-or-garden body tag that disrupts the whole thing. I love it.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=forgot%20to%20hook%20up%20the%20doll