Comments on: Expanding forms with symfony 1.2 and Doctrine

By: Fabrício Menna

Fabrício Menna — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:01:46 +0000

I guess there’s some code missing there. Got kinda lost

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:50:28 +0000

I think you’re probably right I’ll try to get around to updating this with your suggestions.

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:28:15 +0000

This tutorial was so helpful! Thank you kindly for taking the time to write this up!

The only recommended change I have is to pass the Band object in the options() array rather than overriding the constructor.

The change is as follows.

BandMembersForm.class.php would become:

class BandMembersForm extends sfForm
{
public function configure()
{
$i = 0;

foreach ($this->options['band']->Members as $member)
{
$this->embedForm($i, new EmbeddedBandMemberForm($member));
$i ++;
}

for ($j = $i; $j embedForm($j, new EmbeddedBandMemberForm());
}
}
}

And you’d call it in BandForm.class.php->configure() as:

class BandForm extends BaseBandForm
{
public function configure()
{
$this->embedForm(‘members’, new BandMembersForm(array(), array(‘band’ => $this->object)));
}
}

I always try to avoid overriding constructors. I mean, that’s what the options() array is there for, right?

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:06:55 +0000

Can you be more specific? What sort of problems are you having?

By: Ido Schacham

Ido Schacham — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:13:30 +0000

Excellent tutorial, it has helped me a lot. However, I can’t get it to work with a many to many relationship. Any ideas about that?

By: Brice

Brice — Wed, 04 May 2011 12:44:27 +0000

Thanks a lot, work with 1.4, the best example I found on this subject.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:06:06 +0000

Thanks a lot! Brilliant tutorial! It helps me very much in my work. I just modified a bit deletion method and its wokrs great for me!

By: yan

yan — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:04:44 +0000

first, thanks for this great job!
second, is there anybody who could publish his code for sf 1.3 or 1.4?

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:19:36 +0000

Thanks very much for the kind words! Good to know people still find this useful

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 06:26:04 +0000

Wow! Thank you very much for your BRILLIANT post on embedding forms with Symfony! I am just integrating your approach in my own project and it works just great!

I added Delete-Buttons next to the (already saved) “BandMember”-Slots and linked them to the “Band”-Delete-Action. So when a Band already has Members, you can dynamically delete Members and the main form gets “refreshed” instantly.

In my opinion your tutorial here is the best of all the “embedding forms”-tutorials I have read… and I have read them all!

Thank you again!