Get certain form inputs separately - php

Question

I have this form and I have to get the values of 3 fields (name and 2 dates) separately, formate the dates and put them into an arrayCollection.
I only want to get these 3 fields and let the rest of the form field get inserted automatically as usual.
In parallel, when I come back to edit the form, I want to know how to distribute these values to populate the form.

Answer 1

According to this documentation creating-form-classes , an attempt of solution is to do something like :
We assume that your have an entity name Article.
Your form can be something like :
class ArticleType extends AbstractType
{
public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
{
$builder->add('title', TextType::class)
->add('author', TextType::class)
->add('name', TextType::class, [
'mapped' => false
])
->add('date1', DatetimeType::class, [
'mapped' => false
])
->add('date2', DatetimeType::class, [
'mapped' => false
]);
}
public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
{
$resolver->setDefaults([
'data_class' => Article::class,
]);
}
}
Here there is option 'mapped' => false because you don't want to mappe it with the entity Article.
Then in your controller, you can have something like
/**
* #Route("/articles", methods={"POST", "GET"}, name="app_post_article")
*/
public function postArticle(Request $request, EntityManagerInterface $em)
{
$form = $this->createForm(ArticleType::class);
$form->handleRequest($request);
if ($request->isMethod('POST') && $form->isSubmitted() && $form->isValid()) {
$name = $form->get('name')->getData();
$date1 = $form->get('date1')->getData();
$date2 = $form->get('date2')->getData();
//.... do something
}
//... Do other thing
}
/**
* #Route("/articles/{id}", methods={"POST", "GET"}, name="app_edit_article")
*/
public function editArticle(Request $request, Article $article, EntityManagerInterface $em)
{
$form = $this->createForm(ArticleType::class, $article);
// $prevName, $prevDate1, $prevDate2 must be retreive first...
$form->get('name')->setData($prevName);
$form->get('date1')->setData($prevDate1);
$form->get('date2')->setData($prevDate2);
$form->handleRequest($request);
if ($request->isMethod('POST') && $form->isSubmitted() && $form->isValid()) {
$name = $form->get('name')->getData();
$date1 = $form->get('date1')->getData();
$date2 = $form->get('date2')->getData();
//.... do something
}
//... Do other thing
}
It's just an idea.