symfony2-component form

lrotherfield/form

Additional components for the Symfony2 form components

Additional Form Components

This collection of classes add functionality to the Symfony2 Form component., _(*1)

Installation

To install the form component simply add it to your composer.json requirements:, _(*2)

"require": {
        "lrotherfield/form": "2.0.x-dev",
}

And then run composer.phar update, _(*3)

Hidden entity type

To use the hidden entity type you need to register it as a service in your config.yml or a services.yml file:, _(*4)

services:
    lrotherfield.form.type.hidden_entity:
        class: Lrotherfield\Component\Form\Type\HiddenEntityType
        arguments:
            - @doctrine.orm.entity_manager
        tags:
            - { name: form.type, alias: hidden_entity }

You can use then use the type with the form builder:, _(*5)

public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
{
    $builder
        //...
        ->add('example', 'hidden_entity', array(
                "class" => "Lrotherfield\\Bundle\\ExampleBundle\\Entity\\ExampleEntity"
            ));
    ;
}

The only additional requirement is the "class" option which must be a fully qualified namespace to the entity that you want to be used in the transformation, _(*6)