Zend-form in controller and processing this form in specific action - how can I do this?

Im my layout I have search form, so it's displayed on every page. It looks like this:

<?
$form = new SearchIndexForm();
$form->setAction($this->configuration['BaseUrl']Index/search); 
echo $form; ?>

I would like to have sth like that: when someone click submit button, the form redirects to the action "search" on "Index" controller, where there is processing the form values.

So, what should I do, to have开发者_高级运维 equivallent to this, which will be working with data send by post method from form in layout?

if($this->_request->isPost()){
$formValues = $this->_request->getParams();
    if ($form->isValid($formValues)){
    ...
    }
}

With the above, when I click submit, it gets me to the /Index/search, but nothing happens...

The form itself worked perfectly when it was in one action.

It seems like you're doing everything right but I think that there is some code that you should change.

Try the following code

 $request = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getRequest();

//or you can try
//$request = $this->getRequest();

if($request->isPost()){

$form = new SearchIndexForm();

    if ($form->isValid( $request->getPost() ) ){

        echo 'This should output if the form is valid' . PHP_EOL;

    }
}

I don't like accessing variables directly as you did in $this->_request because Zend might have to do doing things to the variables to make them 'proper'. I know that sometimes nothing is done but better safe than sorry. Unless you're positive about it, which I'm usually not positive about unless I've really looked at the code.