ivangabriele/long-form-bundle

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Symfony bundle auto-generating form type, entity and template files from a simple Yaml form model.

v1.1.1 2016-02-01 23:55 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.3.3
• symfony/symfony: >=2.7

Requires (Dev)

• doctrine/common: ~2.5

MIT

• Ivan Gabriele

• form

README

This bundle provides an easy way to automatically generate form classes from a simple Yaml file (which represents the form model) via the CLI. Here are the classes that can be automatically generated :

• the Symfony Form Type class,
• the Twig template (to be included or rendered in your own templates),
• the Doctrine ORM Entity class.

Installation

Install IBLongFormBundle

Add the following dependency to your composer.json file :

composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "inspired-beings/long-form-bundle": "1.*"
    }
}

Enable the bundle

And enable the bundle in the kernel :

app/AppKernel.php

<?php

public function registerBundles()
{
    $bundles = array(
        // ...
        new InspiredBeings\LongFormBundle\IBLongFormBundle(),
    );
}

How to use it ?

File structure

Here is the file structure that IBLongFormBundle is based upon. Also, naming conventions are self-explanatory.

.
├── src
    └── MyCompany
        └── MyBrand
            └── MyBundle
                ├── Entity
                |   └── StudentApplication.php (generated)
                ├── Form
                |   ├── Model
                |   |   └── StudentApplication.yml (form model to write)
                |   └── Type
                |       └── StudentApplicationType.php (generated)
                └── Ressources
                    └── views
                        └── Form
                            └── student_application.html.twig (generated)

Writing the Form Model

The form model is a simple Yaml file based upon Symfony Form Types Reference :

Important

• Be careful not to use defaults keyword as a field name since it is used to set the general options for the Form Type.
• By default, the generated form field type is a string.

Form/Model/StudentApplication.yml

# -------------------------------------------
# Form default options
# @see http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/forms/types/form.html

defaults:
    required: false

# -------------------------------------------
# Form fields
# @see http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/forms/types.html
# 
studentCivility:
    type: choice
    label: "Civility"
    required: true
    choices:
        'Mr': 'Mister'
        'Ms': 'Miss'
    expanded: true
studentFirstName:
    label: "First Name"
    required: true
studentLastName:
    label: "Last Name"
    required: true
studentBirthDate:
    label: "Birth Date"
    type: birthday
studentAddress:
    label: "Adress 1"
studentAddressBis:
    label: "Adress 2"
studentZipCode:
    label: "Zip Code"
studentCity:
    label: "City"
studentCountry:
    type: country
    label: "Country"
    data: "US"
studentEmail:
    type: email
    label: "Email"
    required: true
studentPhone:
    label: "Phone"

# -------------------------------------------
# Form buttons
# @see http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/forms/types.html#buttons
# 
reset:
    label: "RESET"
    type: reset
    attr: { class: 'button-reset' }
save:
    label: "SEND"
    type: submit
    attr: { class: 'button-submit' }

Generating the files

Open your favorite CLI and go into your Symfony project :

php app/console generate:form MyBundleName:StudentApplication

This will generate all the files marked as (generated) in the file structure above :

• Entity/StudentApplication.php
• Form/Type/StudentApplicationType.php
• Ressources/views/Form/student_application.html.twig

If you don't want to generate the Doctrine Entity, you can add the option --no-entity :

php app/console generate:form MyBundleName:StudentApplication --no-entity

And if you want to automatically update your database (calling the doctrine:schema:update --force), you can add the option --schema-update :

php app/console generate:form MyBundleName:StudentApplication --schema-update