I want to separate form validation logic:
public function contactAction()
{
$form = $this->createForm(new ContactType());
$request = $this->get('request');
if ($request->isMethod('POST')) {
$form->submit($request);
if ($form->isValid()) {
$mailer = $this->get('mailer');
// .. setup a message and send it
return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('_demo'));
}
}
return array('form' => $form->createView());
}
I want to translate into 2 separate actions:
public function contactAction()
{
$form = $this->createForm(new ContactType());
return array('form' => $form->createView());
}
public function contactSendAction()
{
$form = $this->createForm(new ContactType());
$request = $this->get('request');
if ($request->isMethod('POST')) {
$form->submit($request);
if ($form->isValid()) {
$mailer = $this->get('mailer');
// .. setup a message and send it using
return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('_demo'));
}
}
// errors found - go back
return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('contact'));
}
The problem is that when errors exist in the form - after form validation and redirect the do NOT showed in the contactAction. (probably they already will be forgotten after redirection - errors context will be lost)
If you check out how the code generated by the CRUD generator handles this you will see that a failed form validation does not return a redirect but instead uses the same view as the GET
method. So in your example you would just:
return $this->render("YourBundle:Contact:contact.html.twig", array('form' => $form->createView()))
rather than return the redirect. This means you do not lose the form errors as you do in a redirect. Something else the CRUD generator adds is the Method requirement which means you could specify that the ContactSendAction
requires the POST
method and thus not need the extra if($request->isMethod('POST')){
statement.
You can also just return an array if you specify the template elsewhere, for example you could use the @Template annotation and then just
return array('form' => $form->createView())
This seems to work for me in Symfony 2.8:
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
class MyController extends Controller {
public function templateAction()
{
$form = $this->createForm(new MyFormType(), $myBoundInstance);
if ($session->has('previousRequest')) {
$form = $this->createForm(new MyFormType());
$form->handleRequest($session->get('previousRequest'));
$session->remove('previousRequest');
}
return array(
'form' => $form->createView(),
);
}
public function processingAction(Request $request)
{
$form = $this->createForm(new MyFormType(), $myBoundInstance);
$form->handleRequest($request);
if ($form->isValid()) {
// do some stuff
// ...
return redirectToNextPage();
}
$session->set('previousRequest', $request);
// handle errors
// ...
return redirectToPreviousPage();
}
}
Please note that redirectToNextPage
and redirectToPreviousPage
, as well as MyFormType
, are pseudo code. You would have to replace these bits with your own logic.