Tag: forms


Snippet: sfWidgetFormJQueryDate for Spanish culture

November 16th, 2009 — 11:47am

  1. Be sure that sfFormExtraPlugin is installed:

    $ php symfony plugin:install sfFormExtraPlugin

  2. In the template:

    <?php use_javascript('ui/i18n/jquery-ui-i18n.js') ?>

  3. In the filter or form:

    $this->widgetSchema['my_date_field'] = new sfWidgetFormJQueryDate(array(
      'culture' => 'es',
      'format'  => '%day%/%month%/%year%', 
      'config'  => '{"showMonthAfterYear": false, "firstDay": 1 }'
    ));

More info on ‘config’ option in http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker.

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Setting a value to a hidden form symfony field

July 16th, 2009 — 10:23am

The case

Sometimes, when creating a new object, we need to give a default value to a specific field but we don’t want this field to be visible in the form.
A tipical example would it be a blog -> post relationship. Where we want the blog_id field to be set automatically but we want it to be hidden.

Blog->Post

Blog->Post

The mistake

When creating a new post for a blog, we do not want the blog_id field to be visible, so we typically go to PostForm.class.php and unset the field blog_id:

//myproject/lib/form/PostForm.class.form
class PostForm extends BasePostForm
{
  public function configure()
  {
    unset( $this['blog_id'] );
  }
}

Then, we edit the action class and set a default value for the blog_id field:

// mypoject/modules/post/actions/actions.class.php
class postActions extends sfActions
{
  public function executeNew(sfWebRequest $request)
  {  
    // create the form
    $form = new PostForm();
 
    // get blog_id parameter from the request
    // and set the default value
    $form->setDefault("blog_id", $request->getParameter('blog_id') );
 
    $this->form = $form;
  }
  //... rest of actions here ...
}

Finally, when we try to create a new post, we realize that the blog_id has not been set correctly.

The solution

Instead of unsetting the blog_id field, we have to change its widget to a sfWidgetFormInputHidden:

//PostForm.class.form
class PostForm extends BasePostForm
{
  public function configure()
  {
    // the wrong way in this case
    // unset( $this['blog_id'] );
 
    // the right way in this case
    $this->widgetSchema['blog_id'] = new sfWidgetFormInputHidden();
  }
}

This way the field blog_id remains hidden but do exists in the form, so the setDefault method works correctly.

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