Multiply categories and bind them to Database Symfony2 - php

Question

i need help with my forms that i create, i created 5 forms in a twig file and created a controller , how can i bind my value from the forms to database, when i bind now it displays me only one Value form the 5 times , but i need 5 times to be different value :(, please help , I stuck on this thing all day already..
my twig file:
<div class="new-test">
<h2>New test </h2>
<form action="{{ path('test.create') }}" method="post">
Test name: <input type="text" name="name"/><br>
Category 1<input type="text" name="category-new" >
<div id="customWidget">
<div id="colorSelector1"><div style="background-color: #00ff00"></div>
</div>
<div id="colorpickerHolder1"></div>
</div>
Category 2<input type="text" name="category-new" ><br>
Category 3<input type="text" name="category-new" ><br>
Category 4<input type="text" name="category-new" ><br>
Category 5<input type="text" name="category-new" ><br>
<input type="submit" value="Add">
</form>
my controller:
/**
* #Route("/add/test", requirements={"name" = "\s+"}, name="test.create")
* #Method("Post")
* #return array
*/
public function createAction()
{
$success = 0;
$name = $this->getRequest()->get('name');
if( !empty($name) )
{
$test = new Test();
$test->setName($this->getRequest()->get('name'));
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
$em->persist($test);
$em->flush();
$success = 'Test '.$test->getName().' was created';
}
else
{
$success = 'Test name can not be empty';
}
$category = $this->getRequest()->get('category-new');
for ($i=0; $i<=5; $i++){
if( !empty($category) )
{
$categoryName = new Category();
$categoryName->setName($this->getRequest()->get('category-new'));
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
$em->persist($categoryName);
$em->flush();
$success = ' Category '.$categoryName->getName().$i.' was created';
}
else
{
$success = 'Test name can not be empty';
}
}
return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('test.new'));
}

Answer 1

Not sure if i understand correctly. You want to have inputs with name 'category-new' that have different value. If so, you have problem in form view:
Category *<input type="text" name="category-new" ><br>
name should have bracket at the end name="category-new[]" or name="category-new[1]" for category 1, name="category-new[2]" for category 2, and so on.

Answer 2

Template:
Category 1<input type="text" name="category-new[]" >
<div id="customWidget">
<div id="colorSelector1"><div style="background-color: #00ff00"></div>
</div>
<div id="colorpickerHolder1"></div>
</div>
Category 2<input type="text" name="category-new[]" ><br>
Category 3<input type="text" name="category-new[]" ><br>
Category 4<input type="text" name="category-new[]" ><br>
Category 5<input type="text" name="category-new[]" ><br>
It`s meen, that your controller take array with name category-new
/**
* #Route("/add/test")
*
* #return array
*/
public function createAction()
{
$success = 0;
$name = $this->getRequest()->get('name');
if (!empty($name)) {
$test = new Test();
$test->setName($name);
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
$em->persist($test);
$em->flush();
$success = 'Test ' . $test->getName() . ' was created';
} else {
$success = 'Test name can not be empty';
}
$categoryList = array_map('trim', $this->getRequest()->get('category-new'));
foreach ($categoryList as $category) {
if (!empty($category)) {
$categoryName = new Category();
$categoryName->setName($category);
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
$em->persist($categoryName);
$em->flush();
$success = ' Category ' . $category . ' was created';
} else {
$success = 'Test category-new may not be empty';
}
}
return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('test_create'));
}
Some words
Route("/add/test", requirements={"name" = "\s+"}, name="test.create")
requirements not need for you
name of this action will be project_bundlename_controller_action for you {project}_{bundlename}_test_create whereis i dont know you project name and bundle name - its not a diffucult i think for you. And some code :)