Comments on: Snippet: Symfony Forms – Accessing the Object in a Form

By: Sarajane

Sarajane — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:07:14 +0000

Hey, thanks a million for posting this! I was trying to figure out how to access my module object from the form class as I need to display certain fields depending on a value.

Cheers :)

By: ErisDS

ErisDS — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:49:09 +0000

@bender If you use Symfony’s module generator, it will provide all the code needed to manage the submission of forms, including object handling.

Normally, for example for creating an object, Symfony would generate you two actions and a helper method in your actions.class.php
executeNew
executeCreate
processForm

But this is Symfony 1.3, not sure if it’s different now.

By: bender

bender — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:47:33 +0000

After the form is submitted how do you get the object back and process it and save it? Do you usually do this in a separate action?

By: ErisDS

ErisDS — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:19:06 +0000

Thanks Henrik, I covered the setDefaults method in another snippet here: Snippet: Symfony Forms - Setting Default Values.

By: Henrik Bjørnskov

Henrik Bjørnskov — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:32:36 +0000

The form also have a method called setDefauls which sets the default values for your fields and then gets overwritten when the user submits it :)