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FormSubmitAnonymous.php

<?php

/**
 * Helper to generate a "submit" button without a name attribute
 *
 * @category Noginn
 * @package Noginn_View
 * @subpackage Helper
 */
class Noginn_View_Helper_FormSubmitAnonymous extends Zend_View_Helper_FormElement
{
    public function formSubmitAnonymous($name, $value = null, $attribs = null)
    {
        $info = $this->_getInfo($name, $value, $attribs);
        extract($info); // name, value, attribs, options, listsep, disable

        // check if disabled
        $disabled = '';
        if ($disable) {
            $disabled = ' disabled="disabled"';
        }

        // XHTML or HTML end tag?
        $endTag = ' />';
        if (($this->view instanceof Zend_View_Abstract) && !$this->view->doctype()->isXhtml()) {
            $endTag= '>';
        }

        // Render the button.
        $xhtml = '<input type="submit"'
               . ' id="' . $this->view->escape($id) . '"'
               . ' value="' . $this->view->escape($value) . '"'
               . $disabled
               . $this->_htmlAttribs($attribs) 
               . $endTag;

        return $xhtml;
    }
}

output.html

<form method="get" action="/search">
    <dl class="zend_form">
        <dt class="button">
            <input type="submit" id="search" value="Search">
        </dt>
    </dl>
</form>

<!-- 
Now when the form is submitted we don't have "?search=Search" in our query string!
-->

usage.php

<?php

$form = new Zend_Form();
$form->addElement('submit', 'search', array(
    'label' => 'Search',
    'ignore' => true,
    'decorators' => array(
        array('ViewHelper', array('helper' => 'FormSubmitAnonymous')),
        array('HtmlTag', array('tag' => 'dt', 'class' => 'button')),
    )
));