Zend_Form simplifies form creation and handling in your web application. It accomplishes the following goals:

• Element input filtering and validation

• Element ordering

• Element and Form rendering, including escaping

• Element and form grouping

• Element and form-level configuration

It heavily leverages other Zend Framework components to accomplish its goals, including Zend_Config, Zend_Validate, Zend_Filter, Zend_Loader_PluginLoader, and optionally Zend_View.