Creating Contact Form using Symfony - php

Question

I am trying to create a form using Symfony 2.5 using this tutorial, but this tutorial is using old version of Symfony. I can get the form to display and created the entity as well however I am now working on submitting the form. Following is the code from tutorial and this code is inside default controller contactAction
public function contactAction()
{
$enquiry = new Enquiry();
$form = $this->createForm(new EnquiryType(), $enquiry);
$request = $this->getRequest();
if ($request->getMethod() == 'POST') {
$form->bindRequest($request);
if ($form->isValid()) {
// Perform some action, such as sending an email
// Redirect - This is important to prevent users re-posting
// the form if they refresh the page
return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('BloggerBlogBundle_contact'));
}
}
return $this->render('BloggerBlogBundle:Page:contact.html.twig', array(
'form' => $form->createView()
));
}
My main concerns is in the following section of above code
$request = $this->getRequest();
if ($request->getMethod() == 'POST') {
$form->bindRequest($request);
As you will notice it is using getRequest() which has been depricated and then my IDE is telling me buildRequest method cannot be found.
I will really appreciate if someone call push me towards the right path of converting the contactAction for symfony verion 2.5, I will really appreciate it.

Answer 1

Declare the action like this:
public function contactAction(Request $request)
{
...
}
And import:
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
And you will have the request inside your action, so you can remove this line:
$request = $this->getRequest();

Answer 2

Hi there are a few deprecated calls also I would really recommend going to the cookbook in Symfony. But anyway this below will help.
namespace myproject/mybundle/controller;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
Class Act //that is me ;) {
/**
* #Route("/contact", name="_lalalalala")
* #Template()
*/
public function contactAction(Request $request){
$enquiry = new Enquiry();
$form = $this->createForm(new EnquiryType(), $enquiry);
$form->handleRequest($request);
if ($form->isValid()) {
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
$em->persist($enquiry);
$em->flush();
return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('BloggerBlogBundle_contact'));
}
return ['form' => $form->createView()];
}
}
You can shorten this code even further by using symfony services container to inject your form. I would recommend reading this it is pretty awesome. As you can re use forms anywhere :)

Answer 3

You can change the getMethod to isMethod like
if ($request->isMethod('POST'))
And then your can submit the request data to the form using submit like
$form->submit($request->request->get($form->getName()));
Alternatively you can use the handleRequest method that will handle the above 2 method in one go and then you can move on with the rest of your action like
$form->handleRequest($request);
if ($form->isValid())
.. etc

Answer 4

To retrieve the request object, you have two possibilities. Either let Symfony pass the request as an argument to your controller action ...
public function contactAction(Request $request)
{
// ...
}
... or get the request object from the container.
$request = $this->get('request');
For the binding of the request to the form, the manual states the following:
Passing the Request directly to submit() still works, but is deprecated and will be removed in Symfony 3.0. You should use the method handleRequest() instead.
This way, the request binding part would look similar to this:
if ($request->isMethod('POST')) {
$form->handleRequest($request);
if ($form->isValid()) {
// do something
}
}